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SpaceX Starship Orbital Test Flight and Starbase Testing Updates · Elon Musk Podcast

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  We are under 10 days away. The first orbital flight, test
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  of Starships. Super-heavy from Boca Chica
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  Starbase Texas. And I'm super excited.
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  I hope you're excited too because this is literally the
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  biggest rocket that will ever fly in human history.
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  If it makes it off the launch pad over the Gulf of Mexico and
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  lands off the coast of kawaii. Now, this is an impressive feat
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  for anybody and Elon Musk has said it himself, it's possible.
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  It might not make it off the pad, but We are expecting
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  something super exciting in the next coming few weeks possibly.
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  So let me kind of back up a little bit.
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  This is literally the largest and most powerful rocket that
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  has ever been built. It's done on a platform that's
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  never been built before. Everything here is brand-new.
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  So this is an experimental rocket and it's super exciting
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  because it's an experimental rocket.
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  This is never been done and if this launches the first time it
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  is succeeds. The Time.
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  This is going to pave the way for future human space flight
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  for decades to come. Now let's look into a few things
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  that have been happening in this last week or so because this is
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  going to be leading up to an amazing event that's happening.
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  So Elon Musk tweeted this out, Elon Musk.
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  We do Starship preparing for launch a bunch of videos from
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  Starbase. Absolutely stunning stunning
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  drone shots from Starbase Texas. Absolutely crazy.
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  He did this on the 6th of April and as you can see from the top,
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  looking down onto the catch arms, out of the nose of the
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  Starship. It's so cool.
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  It's 400 feet tall, right? So I know you're excited about
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  this and it's going to be absolutely amazing.
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  Elon Musk also said, in and reply to SpaceX and SpaceX is
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  Twitter account on the 6th Starship fully stacked to
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  Starbase team is working towards a lodge.
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  Hersel next week followed by Starships first integrated
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  flight test about a week later pending regulatory approval and
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  then Elon retweeted that but added Starship, it stacked and
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  ready to launch next week. Pending regulatory approval
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  SpaceX said that they're working on that test launch rehearsal.
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  And then Ilan, said, stacked and ready to launch right at a lodge
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  next week, that's on the six there.
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  Was an initial timing of the 10th of April, that the, FAA put
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  out, but they postpone that now. And now it's up to the 17th and
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  I'm going to show you that the current operations right here.
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  Mike tweeted us might Mike mxc, Mike, see Maxie tweeted at us
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  and said, 417 is the date. So we checked it out current
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  operations. Here we go.
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  The FAA direct way down at the bottom here, space.
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  Starship, super heavy, Boca Chica Texas for 1723 to be
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  determined. So don't know what time and the
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  important thing is there's no backups quite yet on the FAA
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  website. So none of this is exactly ready
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  to go. Yet the FAA is just a
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  placeholder at this point. So we don't know what they plan
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  on doing for the future. Now, I want to show you this
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  other thing that I found which is really a super cool from Zach
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  golden. He noticed that all the
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  scaffolding has been removed from the top of the of the
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  launch orbital launch Mount. And the scaffolding was where
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  people would walk around and they use it as safety
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  precautions because they're in there working inside of this
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  thing. And on top of it all around it,
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  to get it ready for the orbital, flight test.
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  Right, so says it looks crazy. Like this for some reason,
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  loving the final touches Elon Musk and then Ilan replied to
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  Zeck High. Stainless steel armor is needed,
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  protect the launched and from the world's biggest blow torch
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  the most powerful rocket ever. Even steel will be eroded fast
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  by the Starship booster plume. We will need to make it water
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  cooled, steel jacket to achieve full reusability.
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  We thought everybody thought it was going to be a traditional
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  system where they flood everything with water.
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  There's a deluge system, but this is a little different
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  thing. The Elan says, even steel can be
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  eroded by the Starship booster plume.
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  We will need to make a water-cooled steel, jacket to
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  achieve full reusability. Nobody knows what that means at
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  this point, flame diverter at the bottom more than likely
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  also. What is a water-cooled steel
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  jacket? Look like probably similar to
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  the orbital launch Mount, it's going to be built into it.
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  So of course it's going to be just an add on to it, but what's
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  the steel jacket? Look like water cooled could be
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  anything at this point and it could be adding it before the
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  first flight but more than likely not more than likely
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  they're just going to launch this thing.
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  See how this works. See if there's wears down any
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  when they do launch it and then the work on the water cooling.
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  For the next one of the iterate like SpaceX normally does and we
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  saw some piping being moved in relatively earlier on in a
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  couple I think was a couple maybe a month.
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  And a half ago, there were some water cooling pipes moved in and
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  we thought it was a water Deluge system and I actually claimed
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  hey this is probably a water Deluge system and I was probably
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  wrong because I thought they were going to do before the
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  flight, but it looks like they're not going to be adding
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  the water Deluge system before. Before the flight this time, I
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  think what they're going to be doing is getting everything
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  prepared for the launch in next week on Monday, Tuesday, and
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  Wednesday of next week, there is a A road closure, scheduled from
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  8 a.m. to 8 p.m. basically saying, hey, we're gonna do as
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  many tests as we can get this ready for flight.
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  The FAA is going to award us, this flight contract, or the
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  flight license. And then we will be able to
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  launch the Starship over the Gulf of Mexico and land off the
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  coast of Kauai pretty substantial if this actually
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  happens. We've been waiting for years,
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  I've been waiting for few years went down there for about a
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  year, waited for about a year in Brownsville Texas for this thing
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  to launch, covering it for about a year and I'm super excited
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  about this. We may have a person on the
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  ground down there to to cover this whole event.
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  So, working on that. So just stay tuned for that
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  please. If you can also I want to show
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  you the flight path. Alejandro Alex Alex physics 13
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  on Twitter. Has the whole flight?
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  A path on their Twitter account. So the no Tim has been posted
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  for Mexican airspace to warn aviators of the launch of
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  Starship is Shows Daily Windows every day from the 10th to the
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  12th and you know starting at 7 a.m. now this is the flight path
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  I'm talking about right here. So this is it it shows in
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  there's a bigger bigger version of this right here.
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  You can see the blue part in the middle here.
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  This is the flight path. Everything purple.
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  And everything around it is that is a danger zone.
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  Basically, it could be space shrapnel, space debris, so
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  everything around it is space debris.
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  So we're going to we're going to move over here a little bit as
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  you can see and zoom out a little bit for you and as you
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  can see moves all the way across and that's it for that one, but
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  you can go back. Check this out, there's more to
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  this, not just this one. Is another one space debris
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  right here. And look at this, they did a
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  whole Google map about it. So this is interactive map of
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  this, which is absolutely amazing.
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  I'll leave a link to it in the description below but this map
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  shows everything and we can move this to the side for now claps
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  the map legend move to the side. Here you go directly from
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  Starbase. You can see the blue right here
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  that is the launch pattern. The launch path.
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  In this purple space debris. And this is the Mexican airspace
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  note and basically don't fly in that region.
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  But then to use zoom out a little bit, right?
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  So this is where the boosters going to land to.
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  So the boosters going to go out here, come back land around here
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  in the Gulf of Mexico. We're going to move over here a
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  little bit and as you can see the flight path should go down
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  this way but zoom out a little bit.
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  What is this? This is space debris.
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  Right comes up here, Honolulu Hawaii.
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  So we know it's going to be landing right around here.
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  North of Honolulu. Princeville, you'll be able to,
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  you'll have a great view if you're in Kawaii or on in
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  Honolulu. Yeah.
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  It's going to be an amazing view of the Starship Landing anybody
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  in Honolulu right now watching this because if you are, please
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  get a hold of me. That would be amazing to see
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  your photos. I think it'll be really cool,
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  even just tweeted at me. I think it'd be cool at space
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  news pod, but you can see right here, space debris.
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  All of this is space debris, possible.
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  You know, if something goes wrong.
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  This could all be space debris, coming back down through the
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  Marshall Islands, all the way across Micronesia like in that
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  region. All the way across space debris,
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  could scatter down from the Starship and into the ocean here
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  near Hawaii. So it does have a flight path
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  though. This whole debris, you know,
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  space debris. So very cool interactive map and
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  I'm going to post it in the description below.
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  So I hope you take a look at it. There's some few other things
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  RGV Ariel. Found this photo or took this
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  photo flame diverter Parts RGV aerial photos on Twitter.
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  Lame, de ver. Lame diver, what?
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  No, it's a flame diverter at Starbase Texas.
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  And if you see these pieces of metal, it is look like big
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  chunks of metal. Somebody in the comments here on
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  Twitter somewhere over here. I don't know where you are, but
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  you said It looks like 3 inch bar.
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  That's got to be like a three inch bar.
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  I think it might be Thicker Than 3 inches. 3 inches is about this
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  thick. It looks like it's probably
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  Thicker Than 3 inches, maybe 4 to 6 because it looks like it's
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  two layers. So it looks like there's an
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  outer layer, which is finished with a different color than the,
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  there's an inner layer and then there's sort of like a like, an
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  orangish pinkish layer at the top there.
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  Let me open this in a new tab so I can show you this.
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  Little bit closer. But as you can see, there's an
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  exterior to it and there's also an inner part to it.
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  I'm not sure what that's called. If you're into Metallurgy or if
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  you're know anything about steel, I don't know anything
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  about it. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't know
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  what to say about this, but it looks like it's Thicker Than 3
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  inches. It looks like it's four to six
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  inches. It it might be.
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  I don't know. I don't know if that's
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  steel-reinforced concrete or if that's steel like thick steel.
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  But that could be Diverting the Flames at the bottom, may be
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  shooting them up but we'll see what happens in the next few
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  days to next few weeks, because if this is installed, before the
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  orbital flight test will see it. But if not, we're gonna have to
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  wait for the orbital flight test for them to install these, thick
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  pieces of Steel. So, it doesn't erode the ground,
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  and also, the orbital flight Mount.
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  So, it's going to be an interesting time for SpaceX
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  interesting. Time for this.
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  Our ship. Let me know in the comments.
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  When do you think it's going to launch?
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  Because the next time is the 17th as we as I showed you
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  before, thanks to Mike for that. By the way for 17 primary date
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  for 17 primary, you think they're going to launch on the
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  first? Try on the 17th, if they get the
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  FAA license for this thing, I think they'll be really cool but
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  I'm not sure because most flights don't happen.
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  The first try. There's usually a scrub of some
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  sort, or like a postponement, something like that.
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  So maybe the whole day of the 17th, we'll see what happens
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  with the road closures coming up, but there's a possibility
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  that they get it all done the first go.
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  But yeah, like I said, Monday 8:00 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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  Tuesday. There's a noon till 2 p.m.
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  closure, Wednesday a noon to 2:00 p.m.
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  Closure on the 12th and the 13th and noon to 2:00.
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  Monday was canceled the beaches open.
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  So, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday actually.
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  So I misspoke earlier. So, Tuesday Wednesday and
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  Thursday between noon and 2. That's it.
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  They only have two hours to test this thing for the next week.
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  11th 12th and 13th. 12 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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  Oh wait. That's midnight.
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  To 2:00 p.m. what am I thinking? I thought it was 12:00 noon.
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  Okay. So they have a lot more time
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  than that. So yeah.
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  Let's let's just Let's just back up here a little bit.
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  Let me show you what I'm talking about.
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  This noon to two thing, April 11th, April 12, April 13th.
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  We have some things going on, Mondays, cancelled Easter
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  weekend, of course, people are going to be down there at the
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  beach celebrating with their families.
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  And also the families that SpaceX celebrating the initial
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  launch of the orbital flight test of the Starship, super
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