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MASSIVE SpaceX Upgrades Coming + NASA and More! · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show.
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I have meal with me again. Hi everyone.
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We're going to be doing some of the latest space news.
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We can do a recap of last week, but happened and what's going
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forward for next week? A little bit.
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So Neil, take it away. All right, well, we got some
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news on might as well finish up with SN 10 as far as we do.
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So we got a little extra news from Elan regarding the thrust
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of the engines. The one engine that was Landing
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Starship 1010. As he says, thrust was low,
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despite being commanded high for reasons, unknown at present
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hard, hence, her touchdown. We've never seen this before
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next time, they're going to go minimum two engines.
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All the way to the ground and restart engine 3.
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If one of those two have issues. So they're kind of hedging their
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bets a little bit, trying to make sure that they can manage
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the next version of Starship. Interesting that the He thrust
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was low. Anything could have caused that?
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I am, we're not the engineers at SpaceX.
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So smart for us to say, certainly if there was a methane
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leak in one of the hoses that was certainly reduce pressure
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and that could have an effect on thrust, my limited knowledge of
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these things would indicate that And that could be it could be as
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simple as I could be. Something much more complicated
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as well but yeah, that's a lot of Plumbing in there.
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So there's certainly is. Yeah.
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Yeah. And there there was a fire going
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on before they landed. So it wasn't the landing that
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caused the fire. It was already going.
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So who knows, who knows what happened?
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The leg legs weren't perfect either when they landed like
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they did a holdup. So that's why I kind of crumpled
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and you know, eventually blew up.
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Oh yeah, joined it. Joined the family.
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I haven't. You know, I think Ilan said that
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it wasn't. It wasn't the landing legs.
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That were the issue here. Yeah, it was, it was a hard
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Landing. It was very hard.
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Like it was cool that it landed but it was also very very hard
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for sure. Didn't expect it to be that hard
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but glad it landed, but it's ya fella.
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But you know what? We can't dwell on the past.
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Will we have to move forward. So we're going to talk about SN
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11 for a second. Here we We have a road closure
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for tomorrow. March 8th from 9 till 11:30 a.m.
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and that is the perfect amount of time to roll SN 11 down the
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road. Yeah, put it on launch Mount.
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See, I believe as we're going to put this.
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So the same with ice and 9 launched off of So that's good
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news. If you could see a Starship back
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out there again. Yeah, couple weeks from now,
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we'll hopefully or probably, you know, probably three to four
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weeks, maybe a month, you know, men month and a half, who knows?
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But S11 will be launching next gen ever.
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That is. Yeah, for sure, I think we're
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going to have to, we're gonna have to do some more repairs
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until there's a lot to The Landing Pad again.
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So that'll be a week of work, for sure.
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At least. What's that?
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Hopefully they, you know, and and going Elon, he'll want to
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ramp up the Iterations of getting this stuff done.
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So my guess is that he'll be pushing to have a sen Levin
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launch as soon as possible? Yeah.
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I don't think it's going to be another month.
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Yeah I don't think it'll be another month.
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I think it'll be two to three weeks is my guess.
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Yeah, we'll see how that goes. Yeah it will say we always guess
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about two to three weeks and then it's like well something
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happened said if I didn't go well yeah there's yeah well and
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then we have to wait like you know it's six weeks at that
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point whatever. It's interesting that the I
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found it interesting with the Raptors that are coming from
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California. Now, our have little memes
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attached to them now. Oh, yeah, doggie coins and gems
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or something along those lines. It indicates to me, that they're
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getting a little cocky that over there in California.
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Do they think they know this Raptor?
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And they think they know that is going to work so.
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Well, it's got to go there like at least the confidence, you
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know, at least they have the confidence to push forward into
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need That confidence in your own abilities, for sure.
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Man, we're going to land this thing.
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We're going to launch this thing and it's going to be amazing.
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You just wait till the end of the year when we get to orbit.
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You know that? Let's go seems a bit that early
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for me but well, let's hope that we get there by 2100.
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We would like to do not mind being corrected, same here.
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Yes. And you found something the
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other day you wanted to. So, look at what do we got here?
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Yeah, this is a lot. Okay, so weird Going to do a
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whole different show on this. I just want to touch on this a
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little bit today because it's very important for SpaceX to
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move forward with their Boca Chica facility.
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Right? So they have a decent amount of
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room right now. The three using for you know
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High Bay McBay all the facilities to build the thing
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about the Starships launched landed, but they need more room.
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So these things that you're looking at right now Now, our
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documents from the Army, the US Army, and this is kind of a,
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it's the overall view of where Starship is now, like where the
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Starship Kelly is now in Boca Chica.
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Right there in the project location on the right side, then
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if you scroll down a little bit meal, well it's interesting
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Grand Valley, National Wildlife Refuge has.
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So, it's just south of where the project location is.
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We had, it doesn't, it doesn't like.
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I thought it might before I saw this, I never really looked into
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it, be honest with you, but I thought that it might come up
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right to their doorstep, but it looks like there's a little bit
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of distancing. It's pretty close still.
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I mean, if with anything that could happen, you know, like
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it's a big rocket with a lot of fuel, a lot of things to blow up
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and metal, it's still dangerous, be in like, you know, An area
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where there's a lot of wildlife. For sure it looks like there's
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outer dotted line. Here is the SpaceX land that
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they owned. Yep.
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And then this purple spot. Yeah.
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And this little blue area here is a parking lot and then this
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purple area is what they currently built it yet.
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So far. So they've got a little bit of
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space here to work with a space. Yeah, well, yeah.
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You can see the composition we're looking at fine sand and
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More fine, sand and some fine sand over here.
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And then there's some sand over here as well.
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Exactly. And if anybody's from the book
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to get area, please prove us wrong and tells us.
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There's not a lot of sin there. Yeah.
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But it looks, looks like this. There's a lot of food and we're
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from the like I'm from the Northeast us.
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So we don't have a lot of sand. It would I cease?
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And I'm like, wow, that's a lot. That's a lot of sand.
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Yeah, I know that building on sand is not the best thing.
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So I'm sure that they have to put their foundations, quite
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deep into the hands of the ground.
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Yeah. And the water, the water table
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be quite High here to the right by the gulf.
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So yeah, it's got to be really fast the curlers.
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Yep. Yeah for sure but there's
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different different types of land.
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They got going on Estuary. There's this whole areas
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Estuary, it fills up, sometimes it disappears sometimes.
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So that is something they have to contend with as well as a
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really high that were the high water table.
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And what do they do with all this water that wants to seep
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into their land? Yeah, and they're going to be, I
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mean if you there's a little female and to floods down 1%
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annual chance, flood Hazard, you know, instead of looks like it's
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yeah it's everywhere, you know, this whole place could get
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flooded in any it's like anytime they have a hazardous rainstorm
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or something, you know. So if they're very, very close
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to the ocean yellow. Yeah.
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And that's good though. I'm, they shouldn't have to
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launch for my mouth, you know. Yeah, it's not the right thing
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to do, so, Because neither across three, there's a parking
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lots of this proposed, but there's a lot of land like a
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little bit South little bit, you know, on this High Marsh areas.
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I'm not sure what kind of wildlife is down there.
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But there's been talk in different forums and on Twitter
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and stuff about like, saving the wildlife there and I'm not sure
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SpaceX, I mean, I'm sure they care about it but it's not their
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number one goal. Their number one goal is to send
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people to Mars. Yeah, I mean, how do they do
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that? Certainly, it's really have to
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do everything you can to To protect the wildlife is there
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certainly any endangered Wildlife is there.
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Yeah but in the end they purchase this land for a purpose
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and they really have approval for that.
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So and I'm sure that they need to get approval based on these
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plants were looking at right now.
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But yeah, and then that's why I pointed out the Refuge area, it
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doesn't look like they're in the weft Refuge area or comes right
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up to their doorstep. So it looks like this, this is
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essentially unprotected land is yeah, I hope so.
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I mean don't forget all the figure it out or at least move
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some members and people move some Wildlife around with this
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one will go here. This is an To that document.
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I just made put it here so we can see it.
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Oh yeah. So this is the proposed area or
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the proposed build that they're going to put on the site and
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that's pretty interesting. Yeah, that's very that's very
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interesting. Alright.
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Take, oh, a little bit of a tour around this area.
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Sure. So parking lot across the street
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or parking in general right now. They Park all along the side
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here and a little bit. There's a little bit of a
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parking lot down there, so, Yeah.
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So right now, this is what they currently have.
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So we've got Monch mount a and launch, my be.
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That's where it's an 11, is going to go to.
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That's where I sent and launched from this right here.
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This area is the farm. So that's where all the tanks
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are for the, for the blocks and nitrogen and methane that they
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use. They've got some buildings one.
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Not that's the landing pad that they just destroyed once again
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and this general area. I don't think it's exactly there
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but this general area is going to be where I 77.2 is currently
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sitting Test and yeah yeah, I'm not sure if it's the right
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there. It might be over here a little
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bit but it's interesting that facility.
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But one thing to notice, they do have some stormwater ponds
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associated with sort of controlling that flood water
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that might come up. So that's interesting.
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I'm sure everything sort of draining draining into this
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piece areas around the building around the place.
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So if we come over the current existing site Right here is the
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current orbital. Launch pad that they've got half
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built right now. And they've got something beside
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it. What is this going to be?
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Well, right here, that is the future Tower to move the ol,
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Starship around through the whole deal around.
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So that's in the future and do have a 3D model of the other be
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found on Twitter Bowl. Show you that a little bit nice.
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It's pretty cool. Look that's going to look wild
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when it's all done. Yeah for sure.
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And this area here the currently building that out as sort of a
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is interesting to me because they're building this out of the
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tank farm right now. Very much.
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So there's a lot of concrete being poured up in this area
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right now. But if we come down a little
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bit, you'll see another storm Pond.
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Here's another launch Mount or orbital.
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So that's interesting to see two of them other landing pad over
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here and then we've got another tank farm over here detail,
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which it isn't the middle. They have to go up.
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They could they launch here they land here, right?
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They have to go over the the tank farm, why not?
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I don't Know why they didn't put the tank farm off to the side.
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Like, well, what's the point of having in the middle of this?
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There wasn't enough room for it on the right side.
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Sure it could be the fact that you have to move, the gas has
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the liquid gas, gas remove the the cryogenic fluids and the
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less. You have to move them.
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The better. Perhaps.
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Yeah. So that could have something to
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do with it. Yeah and if I mean they have to
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clear those Towers to though so they'll be they'll have at least
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enough. I'm assuming enough heightened
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thrust if If they get over those two hours to get past those tank
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Farms. But also if something happens as
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they're going over that tower that whole tank farm could just
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go away in a glorious that would be that would be horrendous.
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It really what? It was set them back a long
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time. Yeah.
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Very although if they have this secondary Farm over here that
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they can use our third particular, well yeah that they
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can use that would help as well. The problem with this tank farm
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the one they're currently using is it's not Not it won't be able
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to fill up the fully-loaded Starship and booster.
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It's just there's not even close to enough there.
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So they need much larger tanks. Something that is very
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interesting and the reason that it might be here versus over
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here over here. Is that this area right here,
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this is the air separation unit and they are planning on making
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their own fuel, of course, being Ilan.
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So are separation. You can take the Air were
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breathing, which is 78 percent, nitrogen and oxygen, and argon
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and whatnot, and separate all that out, just by cooling it
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down. Essentially, do cryogenic
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levels. So they're going to have one of
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those there, as well. To make the fuel that would fill
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up these beasts. You tank Farms, so that's
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interesting as well. Yeah, very cool.
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It's all stuffed self-sustaining, you know.
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You got to be able to build everything in house.
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Yep. Roland's to found they don't
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want to, they don't want to live.
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But themselves to the speed of somebody else.
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You know for sure that's what big one of the to do.
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Yeah. One of the problems are going to
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have. Yeah.
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Absolutely. One of the problems are going to
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have with the booster is that it feels.
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It's going to take a lot of fuel, an awful lot of fuel and
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to have trucks coming in here all the time to fill these up to
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the point where they can fill a booster.
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That's an awful lot of trucks. So if you can constantly hundred
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percent of the time 24/7, be making your own liquid oxygen
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and nitrogen to fill the tanks and even met.
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Nothing at some point. Then that's great.
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And then the other thing on here, as well as we've got a new
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entrance here. So currently they are coming in
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over here. Okay.
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And they're gonna have another entrance here that will come
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down and support all of this stuff back here.
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Pretty easy. So that's good.
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Much easier access. They don't have to guess where
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of in and out of pads. Yeah, it'll be a couple of,
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it'll be a flat. It'll be a flat Road.
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It can be a purpose-built to move things on it, that are huge
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and heavy. So that'll be good.
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Yeah. That's always such time that
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they fail and Starship. They take off and they landed on
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the laundromat. Yeah, that's gonna be another
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way. Thing is that they want to
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launch the Starships from this, these pads to their oil rigs.
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Yeah. And then land there and then
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stack and then launch into orbit and Mars for sure.
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And why not right if you're going to move, if you're going
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to, if you need an airplane in a different Airfield, you move the
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airplane by flying it, you don't put it on the back of the truck
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so makes sense. And then of course, the Twitter
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Community has jumped on this little map.
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We've got here and there. Creating their own.
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This is Casper Stanley's version of a sort of a work in progress
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as he says, but some sort of a work in progress of what that
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area might look like based on plants that we just saw the
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think Farm here the to launch mounts for orbital here that you
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watch mounts. First uh, portable orbital here
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and that existing tank farm. And of course, I'll be happy.
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He's never going to go away. Yeah, I hope he stays there
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forever. Yeah.
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And I hope somebody doesn't run into them and sometimes Yeah.
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Some some Essence, something, you know.
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Yeah, for sure. So the other thing I wanted to
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show was this. Now this is RGV aerial
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photography. He does fly over flyovers of the
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of SpaceX facilities launch area as well as build area every
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week. And he's done this overlay.
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So you can see, the real picture is what's existing and then the
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the new stuff is this in white. You focus on, and if I open this
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in a new tab here, sorry, this is going to be huge here.
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But if we focus on this area here, you can see these three
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circles here that is the new tank farm for for this Patti.
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This orbital launch Mount here and I believe that SpaceX is
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planning on building their own tanks for this.
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We've seen The build site we've seen labels on tanks called GSE
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one. So ground support equipment one.
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And there's, there's no other reason to make a tank and it's
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the same size as Starship. Those reason to make that tank
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except they use it as their pressure tank to hold these
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foods. And which is interesting to me
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because I don't know how they keep that cold, they're going to
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have to insulate these I would think to it otherwise Going to
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be constantly covered in Frost. And that's interesting from the
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new are separator units, right? Is that going to be moving over
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to those tanks and store it there or is?
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Dude, think it's according to these plans according to these
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plans, it looks like this is the temporary temporary to me
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anyway. They put a lot of work that all
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these great stuff here. That's all pipes.
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Right. Yeah.
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So there's something going to be built over here as well, but
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this, they put an awful lot of work into this for it to be
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temporary. They're just about ready to pour
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the concrete of these of these towers here.
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So there's going to be like a concrete based on So it's
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interesting. It's very interesting to see.
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Yeah, there's a lot going on in Bogota area all the time.
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Yeah. And that that all that is that's
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excitement, right? That's just going to be exciting
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to watch the whole thing come through.
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Yeah, it would accompany you. And thank you for thank you to
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RGV aerial photography, buried. Marry him Boca Chica gal.
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All these guys for four. Sharing what they see every day.
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It's amazing to follow along and then think once they're there,
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so we can watch. Yep.
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Thank you to them. Yeah, let me take a quick break.
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Absolutely, thank you. Okay, shifting gears a little
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bit. We'll talk about Some Landing
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Lakes. So, with dear Moon let me just
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come back to this here. All right, with your moon, we
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got some new renders from from SpaceX.
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Now we never know whether these are accurate or whether they're
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just some artists interpretation but you can see there's a little
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bump out for a leg here and there's another one under here
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and you can sort of see it as a black box around that because
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that's of course. This one has the has the
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protective tiles on it and this one doesn't down here.
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So. So Eric's kind of Taken Eric X
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has kind of taken this as as sort of a hint as to what the
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legs might look like. And these guys love to have to
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speculate, so they're going to figure it out, he's put together
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a couple of different ideas. So here's one here, where the
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like simply drop down and lay flat this area.
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Yeah, up here will become shock absorber kind of area.
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I would think these give another option here.
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Please wants kind of pop out, give a little bit more of a base
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to land on rather than just flat straight down.
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And then he's got some that pop out and, and land very much like
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a falcon. I might.
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So that's very interesting to see.
22:58
I love these guys and the renders that they're doing
23:02
amazing to watch sort of those Minds at work.
23:04
Kind of like the second. Okay, so here we've got a dome
23:09
that's about to be sleeved and this is where I got the
23:12
information for the ground support equipment 1.
23:15
So, this is this is called Ground support GSE one ground,
23:18
support equipment one and that's likely going to be Used as a
23:21
pressure tank for the farm. So that's very interesting to
23:24
see little tie in little call back there.
23:26
Yeah, yes. There should have that around
23:28
but okay, it's all right. So, yeah, that's that's sort of
23:32
what's going on SpaceX this week and the other things going on in
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this world is of course, perseverance.
23:40
Yeah. And I'm not that worried until
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shot. Then another world.
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Yeah. That's a beautiful shot.
23:47
You can see that's, what's wealth.
23:48
What's all this here? Will.
23:49
I wonder I wonder if perseverance has moved a little
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bit. It does look like, it doesn't.
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What is it? 15 or 16 feet, Percy's moved.
23:57
Yeah, something like that. Yeah, they move them forward a
24:00
little bit and left hand turn, and then like that so much, they
24:05
moved again. So everything seems to be going
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really well for perseverance so far.
24:10
It's great to see more tracks on Mars.
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Oh yeah, you can even see up here that day, Rock up sort of
24:16
pushed out of the way as they were turning or something.
24:19
So that's cool too crazy that that's on Mars.
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Yeah, that's pretty special blows my mind.
24:25
The pictures are so beautiful, right?
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The picture. So clear eautiful great cameras.
24:31
This is just a picture of Martha's.
24:32
I thought it was awesome. Just the rocks that you're
24:34
looking at. It doesn't look real.
24:36
It looks like you're here. Just trying to your coloring a
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picture from from Earth. Yeah.
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It just beautiful. Yeah.
24:43
It looks like somebody built something to look like something
24:45
that's on Mars in the foreground.
24:47
Yeah because it look like maybe some bills.
24:50
Let's just we'll just blur it a bit and it look like over there.
24:54
Don't get the conspiracy theorists.
24:55
Oh going, I don't feel hats. Yeah.
25:04
So I thought that was really cool.
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Yeah, very cool. And for on the same track as
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perseverance. This is this little white dot is
25:14
where perseverance landed, and this is kind of the proposed
25:20
track that they want to follow our path.
25:22
They want to follow on Mars to, to do all the experience that
25:24
they're looking for. So you can see there's a big
25:27
Delta here, this, huge Delta, and they want to get in there
25:30
and explore that and and look for signs of life and look for
25:34
other other geological. Mixed do some sampling and that
25:38
sort of thing all the way up into the nerd.
26:06
R. It seems like that jaggedy like
26:09
see where it's where they're doing those couple switchbacks
26:12
that right here going on. Yeah switchbacks there for sure.
26:15
They're going to be going up there and then you've got these
26:18
weird little things like this. What's going on here?
26:20
Yeah that's either. They need to our, why did they
26:24
need to do that? What's going on?
26:25
Yeah. Looks it looks like yeah.
26:29
That's going to be a long drive. How long do you think they see
26:32
how long it's going to take them to do this drive anywhere?
26:35
I didn't see it. Well, there's a scale down.
26:36
Two kilometers is the length of this.
26:38
So it looks like a long way but it's not terribly long.
26:43
But this will be a few months, for sure.
26:45
At least, if not more. This might be the next couple of
26:48
years. Yeah, could be, is that course,
26:50
they're stopping right there stopping the entire time and
26:52
doing science, as they go in the Rover will be dropping samples
26:57
as well as they go along. So, for sure.
26:59
It'll be sciencing the whole way.
27:01
Yep. And it sounds like they're
27:03
they're closer to selecting Northrop Grumman Grumman as as
27:06
the building the the vehicle to bring those samples back.
27:11
It's crazy. It's like that's cool.
27:13
That's nuts. But I don't how, what, what?
27:18
There's gonna be. There's a, there's a Rover
27:20
that's packing up stuff from Mars, along the way, it drops,
27:23
these tubes of the stuff and then there's another Rover.
27:26
That'll just fly there from Earth land perfectly and then
27:31
the Rover will drive along the same route.
27:33
Is Percy, does pick those things up, its specific points.
27:36
It's and then fly back to Earth with those things.
27:41
Yeah, it's crazy. That's science fiction.
27:44
That's yeah, so in the next couple weeks, hopefully, we get
27:46
to see a helicopter on Mars. Yeah, that's I'm gonna freak
27:50
out, so, that's cool. And then, when that, that Next
27:55
Rover are thing from my from Northrop Grumman foot lands will
28:00
see the first launched from Mars, so that'll be pretty cool
28:03
too. That's that's nuts, man.
28:07
I don't get it. I don't understand it, but I'm
28:10
going to freak out when it happens.
28:11
Mmm, and be honest, absolutely not.
28:14
Hopefully everybody joins us for the live stream on that happens
28:17
because that's going to be fun. It's gonna be a good one.
28:21
Cannot wait. I cannot wait everything every
28:23
single day. I can't wait to see what they're
28:25
going to do next. Yeah, there's so much stuff.
28:28
Yeah, and I've got a couple things that I just thought were
28:31
really cool and I thought that people might want to see.
28:33
And one is this picture of Enceladus which is a moon of
28:37
Saturn, but it's nice. It's a nice moon, but small.
28:42
But as I just thought it was a really cool picture.
28:45
It's beautiful, just incredible. That is a few.
28:48
Yeah, that exists. That's an arsehole.
28:50
We can go there soon. Yeah, we probably.
28:54
But yeah, you can see these old, you know, meteorite impact sites
29:01
if contrasted with the obviously flowing water, and ice moving
29:06
down here quite just quite beautiful.
29:09
Yeah, that's something. That's so kind of office.
29:12
This gets any bigger. Oh, yeah.
29:14
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
29:16
Wow. Yeah.
29:18
Just just a gorgeous gorgeous. Wow.
29:20
Moon. And I can't wait till we go
29:23
there. Look at that detail to and
29:25
that's yeah, that's not here like that that's far.
29:29
Far away in space. Yeah.
29:32
Yeah. The stuff blows my mind, man.
29:34
It's just the color itself is just beautiful to.
29:36
Yeah. So subtle just hanging out and
29:40
yeah, we're just waiting for us to show up and yeah.
29:45
Drill into it, drill into it, find some life under there.
29:49
And then the other thing I've got is crew, one busy away.
29:54
This is Commander, Mike and Mike Hopkins, and he says he's grown
29:58
plants. Look at them.
29:59
Look at those plants. It looks like kale to me, but
30:03
look at the size of them. That's awesome.
30:06
Yeah, presently large. It was the time you see like,
30:09
you know, like those little tiny plants or like this big like
30:11
little clovers and stuff. Yeah, yeah this is like a I plan
30:15
these are the kind of things that they're going to need to be
30:17
able to do on their trips to Mars eventually, one day, that's
30:20
for sure. So important, because we learned
30:22
things from the ISS to take to other missions.
30:25
So hip and, and the lights are sort of reddish magenta color
30:31
because the plants respond for the walls of that color.
30:33
So in the light spectrum. So that's why they, that's why
30:38
they use that color. Oh well, I didn't know that.
30:40
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, they don't, they don't
30:42
use all the white light, they mostly use this.
30:45
Bluish and red color. Select the green doesn't get
30:49
used a lot. So yeah, it's a but you can see
30:52
as I found it, interesting as well as head has gotten much
30:54
larger. That's he's been you know, your
30:58
body is used to pumping a lot of blood to your head, your brain,
31:03
of course, and it's hard to do that going uphill, but so when
31:07
you're getting when you're in space, there's no gravity to
31:09
pull that blood back down. So your head gets a little bit
31:11
larger because of all the blood that's more in into it.
31:16
Yeah, it happens within the first couple days to get people,
31:18
get kind of like a vertigo. Kind of like they kind of get a
31:21
little bit sick because laughs because the blood doesn't really
31:24
know where don't get pumped to. So yeah, it's it's his head is
31:28
pretty big. Hey, Mike, you got a big head,
31:32
don't let it go to your head looking good though.
31:35
But uh, yeah, I really enjoy this aspect of what's happening
31:41
at the ISS, so I think it's fascinating.
31:44
I think it's necessary for our future and it's really cool.
31:50
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, that's all I had for the
31:53
day. Perfect, that's all we need.
31:57
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