Twitter's most iconic symbol, the light blue bird logo, seems to be facing the Twilight, going the way of the dodo, if you will. The decision to retire the bird, which has been at the center of the company's brand since its inception in 2006, marks the latest in a series of dramatic changes under Elon Musk, the platform's owner.
Musk, 52 years old now the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, announced via his personal Twitter account, x.com now points to Twitter.com. Interim X logo goes live later today. His post, at once cryptic and clear, signify the impending end of the familiar bird logo. Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and gradually all the birds, he added in a later tweet. These words echo his ambition to redefine the social media giant into something that's all-encompassing Now.
The distinctive bird logo traces its origins back to Twitter's founding, when the company purchased a stock symbol of a light blue bird for $15, as reported by design website Creative Block. And Twitter's name itself is a whimsical allusion to the sound of birds chattering. Now, however, the future of the platform appears to void of these avian reverences. Musk's connection to the X
symbol is not new, though. In 1999 he founded x.com, a company that later evolved into PayPal, one of the world's leading online payment platforms. Now, when Musk, famously known for his ambitious ventures and electric vehicles and space exploration, took over Twitter last year, he dubbed it an accelerant to creating X, the Everything app. Now, this statement gives us a hint of Musk's grand vision to the future of Twitter.
Following this direction, Twitter's parent company was subsequentially named X Corporation. Now, the decision to swap Twitter's familiar bird logo with a new one raised eyebrows in the business community. Elon Musk said if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll go live worldwide tomorrow. That's what Musk said, posting the logo changed through at a surprisingly fast pace.
And in another statement, he spoke of cutting the Twitter logo off the building with blowtorches, possibly referring to the removal of the old signage from Twitter's San Francisco headquarters. Musk's moves have not been without controversy, though. In the six months since the $44 billion acquisition, he's shaken the Twitter world.
Despite Twitter's brand toolkit still recognizing the light blue bird as its most recognizable asset, Musk has shown his commitment to charging a new path for the social media giant. Yet this hasn't translated into instant success.
Fidelity marked down as holding in Twitter by 2/3 in May, and Kathy Woods, Ark. Investment Management also reduced its stake by 47%, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Now, to counter the challenges, Musk has set out to revitalize Twitter's revenue streams, primarily focusing on optimizing advertising. Earlier this year in March, he announced plans to enhance the relevance of Twitter's ads, projecting the platform would break even on a cash flow basis in quarter 2.
However, the reality proved otherwise as Twitter's cash flow remained in the red. Musk attributed this to a roughly 50% drop in advertising revenue and the company's substantial debt load. Further iterating on his rebranding plans, Musk revealed that Twitter would soon sport an X logo accompanied by a significant color scheme change. He initiated a user poll to change default platform color to black and even hinted at a potential logo design saving
like this. But X above an illustration of the iconic bird silhouette against a black backdrop, Elon Musk's unconventional leadership style has been a subject of much debate. Now he continues to make headlines with his decisions at Twitter. And his personal Twitter account, once known for his innovative updates on SpaceX and Tesla, has now transformed into a live chronicle of his overhaul of Twitter.
The once playful, bird loving platform is evolving under Musk and whether this transformation leads to a triumphant flight or a crash landing remains to be seen. Could this be the rise of a new Phoenix?
However, amid all the upheavals, Musk has not shield away from addressing the challenging financial situation Facing Twitter. He has openly warned that the platform might face bankruptcy risk, a sentiment underscored by the platform's persistent negative cash flow due to a significant drop in advertising revenue and the subsequential debt load move to replace Twitter's long standing bird logo signifies more than just a design change, it represents a
shift in identity, philosophy, and perhaps destiny for Twitter. With Elon Musk is at the helm and he's steering Twitter, or now X, into a new chapter in its history, we're going to switch gears from Twitter to Tesla now. And on Friday, a U.S. Federal appeals court indicated its readiness to reassess a recent decision condemning Tesla CEO Elon Musk first purported
violation of federal labor laws. The violation reportedly came about in 2018 through Musk's tweet suggesting that employees could lose stock options if they chose to join a union. This reconsideration was triggered by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans. It granted Tesla's request to revisit the case.
Agreeing to engage a panel comprising its 16 active judges and bank review is a significant procedural move, typically implying that the court believes the course possesses substantial importance or the initial decision might have been incorrect. Earlier in March, a three judge panel from the same court had upheld a National Labor Relations. Board or the NLRB Ruling.
The NLRB held that Musk's tweet on May 20th, 2018 constituted an unlawful threat with potential discouraging impacts on unionization efforts at Tesla. As per this ruling, Musk was directed to delete the offending tweet. The tweet came into focus when the United Auto Workers Union was seeking to organize employees at Tesla's plant located in Fremont, CA. To organize employees at Tesla's plant located in Fremont, CA, the Musk's tweet read.
Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union could do so tomorrow if they wanted, he wrote. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing? The appeals courts panel identified substantial evidence that the tweet posed an implied threat to end stock options as retaliation for unionization. Now arguing for a reconsideration, Tesla raised free speech concerns, arguing that the NLRB disregarded several key factors.
Firstly, no employees allege that Musk's tweet threatened them. Secondly, Musk didn't intend to threat anyone. Finally, Musk later clarified that his tweet wasn't intended as a threat. At the time of the report, both the NLRB and Tesla, along with their legal teams, haven't responded for any of our
comments. Now, the final decision on the case isn't expected before 2024, though it's important to note that out of the 16 active judges on the appeals court, 12 were appointed by Republican presidents, potentially influencing the ideological balance of the bench. This isn't the first time that Musk's Twitter activities have landed him in legal hot water, though. In August 2018, he tweeted about having quote funding secured for
taking Tesla private. This resulted in a US Security is an Exchange Commission lawsuit, as the funding claim turned out to be false. Subsequently, Musk and Tesla had to collectively pay $40 million in civil fines to settle the lawsuit. Now, despite these legal tangles, Musk's business empire remains unscathed. As per Forbes magazine, Musk's fortune stands at $236.4 billion, making him the second richest person globally.
In an unexpected move last October, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion, stirring a new era of leadership for the social media giant, and the forthcoming reconsidering of Musk's case presents a fresh opportunity for the tech mogul to defend his stance. It remains to be seen how this unprecedented legal battle unfolds and its potential impact on unionization efforts within the tech industry are now.
Regardless of the outcome, though, the case underscores the rising tension between the tech, labor movements and industry leaders. In the Today, we're going to be looking into a significant development in the electric vehicle space that's going to transform the North American
landscape. It's a new comprehensive electric vehicle charging network set to span across the United States and Canada. This is a joint venture backed by some of the largest players in the auto industry, including BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Stalantis. These industry leaders are coming together with the aim of making EV charging as convenient as possible for users. This will revolutionize how we
charge our EV's. Now in addition to that, we'll also be discussing Rivian, another EV maker. Now this is about the CEO of Rivian, and they share their perspective on companies that are truly committed to renewable energy and the importance of consumers understanding the source of their power consumption, where everything comes from. We'll take a little dive into that and also the future of EV charging.
So there's a lot to uncover in today's episode, and I promise that it'll be a nice, thought provoking discussion that you won't want to miss. So stay with us. We'll take a quick break for some important messages from our sponsors and we'll be back to delve deeper into these developments in the electric vehicle industry. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is a major step for electrification in the auto
industry. This is a global consortium of automakers comprising of BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Solantis and this is a joint venture to build a comprehensive EV charging network across the US and Canada. This is a formidable grouping, currently unnamed. They don't have a name yet, and
they. Pledged to erect user friendly DC fast chargers along the highways and within urban environments of the US and Canada, the plan aims to install at least 30,000 high speed EV chargers by 20-30, with the initial one set to become operational by the summer of 2024 in the US. Now, to fulfill this goal, this group intends to harness the national electric vehicle infrastructure or the NEVI funding in the US and draw from both private and public funding at the state and federal levels.
So they're getting the government and the taxpayers to pay for most of this. And the current EV charging landscape is mainly Tesla Superchargers and Electrify America stations dotted all across the United States. Now these stations are typically installed in strategic locations where people can shop, they can go out to eat, or they can use
restrooms. And in line with this, the proposed new chargers will be positioned along routes leading to holiday destinations and within major city limits. Now, these new charging stations promise seamless connection and charging capabilities for EV models manufactured by the partner automakers. This eliminates the need for consumers to navigate between different charging station applications, thereby ensuring a smooth user experience.
The venture also seems to incorporate the emerging plug and charge standard that the Federal Highway Administration is striving to standardize, Mary Bera, the CEO of General Motors. Voiced her support for the initiative, saying the better experience people have, the faster EV adoption will grow. She pointed to the current issue plaguing many charging networks, which require unique apps and suffer from reliability
concerns. Notably, Tesla's Supercharger network hailed us among the best globally will accommodate vehicles from automakers including Ford, GM, Volvo and more, all without necessitating activation via an app. In line with global sustainability initiatives, the joint venture plans to have its operation fully powered by renewable energy. Although it's unclear whether the renewable energy will directly power the stations or whether the companies will purchase credits.
Is eco conscious approach is indicative of the industry's increasing shift towards sustainable practices. Now Canadians are great Neighbors to the North will have to wait until a later stage before the initial charging stations are installed. All stations will include standardized Tesla North American Charging standard ports, the NECS and the widely used Combined Charging System plugs, the CS. This announcement comes at a time when the environmental credentials of companies are
under scrutiny. Now the Rivian CEO expresses frustration at companies overstating their green achievements. He believes consumers can't discern the difference, and the companies often hide the true source of their power consumption, he said.
This is just so conceptually complex, drawing a clear line between companies that invest in renewable energy to offset their emissions and those who merely want to pay a teeny little incremental amount more to get the ability to pat ourselves on the back and say we're using renewable energy. That's what they said. Now they position Rivian as a company that aspires not only to offset its own carbon emission, but also to contribute to the creation of new renewable energy
capabilities. This commitment led him to support the development of a new solar energy center in Kentucky built the top of former coal mine. Now the mine Starfire, once bustling with miners hauling millions of tons of coal annually, is set to be transformed into a solar farm, aiming to generate 800 megawatts of energy, enough to power 160,000 homes per year.
Bright Night, a company based in Florida, which is a solar company, is additionally constructing A10 mile transmission line to add another GW of power capabilities in the future. A Rivian has committed to purchasing 100 megawatts of energy from the project under a virtual power Purchase agreement, the PA, which means the power is clean energy and it won't directly power Rivian's electric vehicles or its corporate infrastructure.
However, it will contribute to powering up to 450,000,000 miles of renewable driving every year. Now, the commitment to renewable energy doesn't stop with Rivian, though. Other automakers like Solantis and Mercedes-Benz have also signed on to virtual Ppa's to help meet their sustainability
goals. Now, virtual Ppa's are growing in popularity amongst American corporations, and in 2021, corporations purchased a record 31.1 gigawatts of clean energy, which was over 10% of all new renewable energy capabilities added worldwide that year. Tech giants like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google accounted for more than half of those agreements. Now, the Rivian CEO asserted that without these virtual Ppa's, many renewable energy projects wouldn't even get off the ground.
The commitment to the purchase power for these projects ensures their financial viability and their completion, and Rivian's commitment to the solar project in Kentucky shows that they're in it for the long haul. Rivian also champions transparency and reporting environmental impact. It's striving to achieve Scope 3 neutrality. This is an objective that means the company aims to eliminate all indirect emissions from its supply chain and the life cycle
of the Ev's it produces. Moreover, Rivian plans to offer a package allowing drivers to match their charging regardless of location with renewable energy Now. This commitment to offsetting carbon emissions positions Rivian as an industry leader in the shift towards renewable energy. Now this collective venture of global automakers to build this new EV charging network is a huge move and this will electrify an eco conscious future for the automotive industry.
Now the commitments towards renewable energy signals a shift towards sustainable practices in the automotive sector that we've never seen before and hopefully will help promote wider EV adoption in the future. Thank you so much for listening to the Elon Musk podcast today. I really do appreciate your support and I appreciate you spending your time here with me today. If you could take a second and please hit the subscribe or follow button on your.
Podcast platform of choice. I greatly appreciate it. It helps out the show a lot. So thanks so much everybody. Please take care of yourselves and each other and I will see you in the next one. And then in this update, we're going to be the Starship program. And after the initial Starship launch ended in a dramatic explosion above the Gulf of Mexico, the company's forward momentum has stalled on the launch front.
Three months have passed since the incident and the company's yet to submit a final accident report to the Federal Aviation Administration or the FAA. Now this indicates that the rocket program remains grounded for now, and the second launch may not happen this summer, unlike what Elon Musk has said now overseeing the investigation into April 20th launch.
The FAA stated on Wednesday that it still awaits the critical report that will identify the necessary corrective measures SpaceX must undertake before gaining clearance for another launch from Boca Chica Starbase, Texas. And an FA spokesperson avoided conjecture regarding the potential completion date for the agency's investigation, explaining that public safety and actions yet to be taken by SpaceX. Will dictate the timeline.
Now, according to the FA, any return to flight operations will only be sanctioned when it is determined that any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety or any other aspect of the operator's license. Now, they emphasize that the mishap investigation is still ongoing, though now adding to the situation's complexity. SpaceX is also trying to modify its current license, which was suspended after the first
launch. Now, despite these regulatory roadblocks, though, Elon Musk and SpaceX are projecting a swift return to launching operations. The company, which is held privately, has been showcasing repairs to its orbital launch mount now. This facility sustained significant damage from starships first launch, raising public safety and environmental
concerns. The rocket, after a chaotic liftoff and loss of control, was annihilated over the Gulf of Mexico and while dealing with the aftermath, SpaceX has made enhancements to its launch site. Among the new editions is a steel plate designed to shield the pad in future test launches. Last week, the company shared on Twitter that it transported a new super heavy booster prototype to the pad.
For testing ahead of Flight A Continuing its updates on Monday, SpaceX revealed that it's completed propellant load tests on two different boosters, Booster 9 and Booster 10. Images displayed the boosters glazed with frost after being filled with liquid methane and liquid oxygen. The absence of a completed investigation report and the FAE approval for another launch suggest that Musk's timeline for resuming test flights may be overly optimistic.
Musk, who's also responsible for Tesla, the Boring Company Nurlink Operations, as well as Twitter, has stated on June 13th that the Starship would be ready for another launch within 6 to 8 weeks, aligning with the end of July or early August time frame. A SpaceX Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, was launched from its Starbase facility at Boca Chica on April
20th of this year. It managed to clear the launch tower, which Elon Musk said was a hope at most and at recent altitude, of 24 miles above Earth before culminating in an uncontrolled explosion over the Gulf of Mexico.
At liftoff, though, the Rockets 33 Raptor engines fired up, but there were only 31 that were actually firing, and they also fired chunks of concrete and metal from the launch site across 385 acres, igniting wildfires and kicking up a dust storm of pulverized concrete, scattering debris. Possibly up to 6.5 miles away from the launch site.
Must conceded the launch had caused an unforeseen rock tornado under the Starship Super Heavy, his booster stage during liftoff and despite the havoc, he insisted there were no significant environmental damage. And since the launch, SpaceX has progressed.
At the launch compound has been closely monitored, and since the three months this Starship debuted, SpaceX has made a huge amount of progress on the hardware of the boosters and the ships, and also on the launch site ground systems down to Starbase, Boca Chicas, Texas. Now, despite the optimism, SpaceX still has legal hurdles to overcome before resuming flight testing from Starbase. Along with the FAA, SpaceX is a codefendant in a federal lawsuit contesting the FA A's initial
approval of the Starship launch program, and the suit was filed by environmental and indigenous groups that challenge the FA A's review and approval of Spacex's plans. The plaintiffs are pushing for the agency to carry out an environmental impact statement, a process that can potentially ground the rocket program for many years to come.
Now, the suit alleges that the F approval violated federal laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, due to an adequate consideration of potential harm to wildlife. The FA and SpaceX have largely denied these allegations and court filings and have requested the lawsuit's dismissal. SpaceX is the most valuable aerospace and defense company in the United States, and the company has asked to intervene in the lawsuit, citing a direct subsequential economic interest.
Now Musk has stated the SpaceX has invested 3 billion dollars since 2014 and developing the Starbase facility, and the facility is pivotal to the company's growth though, with plans to use Starship for launching more Star Link satellites into orbit and returning NASA astronauts to the moon with the Artemis 3 program. Musk also has ambitions to use the reusable rocket to transport human beings to Mars for the first time. Now, after the initial Starship launch, Musk stood edit this out.
After the initial Starship launch, Musk said he expected to spend an additional $2 billion on the rocket program, hoping to attempt at least five launches by the end of 2023. However, the test is in limbo right now, and NASA has actually voiced concerned over Spacex's ability to have its lunar Lander version of Starship ready in time to carry astronauts to the
moon. According to the space agency schedule in early June, NASA indicated that it's Artemis 3 moon mission originally planned for late 2025, is likely to be postponed until 2026 due to Spacex's complications with the Starship program. NASA's associate administrator Jim Free commented on the situation. They said with the difficulties the SpaceX has had, that's
really concerning. Meta Platforms, who was led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is strategizing on how to boost user retention on the recent launch of Threads. The direct rival of Twitter, now the text based social media app, experienced a significant user dropoff following its highly anticipated debut, according to a statement by Zuckerberg during an internal town hall on Thursday. Despite a falloff in engagement, the company's leadership noted that the user retention rate is above expectations.
Although not without room for improvement and the app experienced A surge of signups at launch with numbers exceeding 100 million, the retaining these users proved very challenging for meta, Zuckerberg stated. We have more than 100 million people sign up and it would be incredible if all of them, or even half of them stuck around. We are not there yet. Nonetheless, the CEO termed this dropoff as a normal trend in app
usage. Following the initial excitement of a new product launched, he further predicted an increase in user retention. As a company plans to introduce new features to Thread soon. This includes a desktop version of the app and advanced search functionality to enhance user experience. Now struggling to implement more retention driving hooks, Meta aims to encourage users to continuously engage with the app.
One proposed strategy was mentioned by the company's Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, who suggested integrating threads with Instagram, ensuring important threads are visible to Instagram users. The company, however, declined to comment further. On that matter now, Medis executives share their insights a day after presenting an optimistic growth revenue forecast that impressed investors, signifying a potential turnaround for the
tech company. Now, the firm faced criticism over its substantial investment in the Metaverse in 2020, an investment that coincided with a downturn in advertisement sales. This revenue forecast disclosure boosted Medishares by 8% on Thursday, indicating renewed investor confidence.
Now, Zuckerberg expressed optimism about the company's progress in developing augmented and virtual reality technologies that willpower the Metaverse. He affirmed that they were not significantly ahead, but progressing as planned. CEO highlighted the importance of investing in these technologies early, especially given the competition from tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft, Zuckerberg said. We have to have all the tools ready for when this is ready for
prime time. The company also drew attention to its artificial. Intelligence model Lama Two which was released earlier this month. It is freely available for commercial use to any developer with services having fewer than 700 million users. And according to Cox, the model has already received over 150,000 download requests in the week following its release. Following its record-breaking launch Threads, has faced dwindling user engagement, however, rival Elon Musk, who
acquired Twitter last year. Should not start celebrating quite yet. On Wednesday, Zuckerberg shared Meta's comprehensive plan to enhance threads and eventually overpower Twitter in the social media landscape. He said we have a lot of basic work to do now. The CEO highlighted the importance of testing and introducing features the users enjoy, while simultaneously ensuring that these features encourage consistent app usage. And Zuckerberg also pointed out that while threads had seen a
user drop off. Its monetization was not an immediate concern. The focus for now was on scaling the user base to hundreds of 1,000,000 Threads emerge as an alternative Twitter, especially following Musk's radical changes to the platform after his $44 billion acquisition. And this caused a portion of Twitter's user base to seek other platforms for real time online Conversations developed in less than six months with a team of just 15 engineers.
Threads recorded over 100 million users within a week of its launch and unprecedented achievement for a social media app. And despite the current lull in user engagement, Meta remains optimistic about Threads. Future The company plans to introduce several updates in the coming months and years. One recent update includes a follow content feed now discussing Metas, track record
and standalone app development. Zuckerberg acknowledged the company's limited success beyond original services like Facebook and acquired platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp. And taking cues from venture capital strategies, where several investments are made with only a few yielding substantial returns, he suggested that Threads could be their rare success. The CEO attributed the opportunity to the controversial changes on Twitter under Musk's
leadership, he said. I'm optimistic about where we are, and it's a long road ahead. There's a journey for Zuckerberg and the Threads team, and that journey is to have the first social discourse app. To reach 1 billion users, it's in a huge, huge announcement from TikTok, the social media giant, they've unveiled a feature that permits users to
post text only content. This marks a significant milestone for TikTok, opening up a whole new channel of communication and storytelling for its community of video makers. Now the strategic move widely regarded as a challenge directly to Elon Musk's rebranded social media venture X, which is previously known as Twitter.
Places the Chinese app at the forefront of the dynamic digital world's evolution and as of Monday, Tik Tok's creators have an additional string to their bow of content creation capabilities. The new feature allows creators to opt for a text only format in their posts. This pioneering change aligns perfectly with Tik Tok's missions to broaden options for creators and facilitate their
creative process along the way. It provides them with more freedom and flexibility and how they share their ideas. A representative from TikTok said text posts are a game changing feature, expanding the boundaries of content creation for everyone at TikTok, and they aim to give the written creativity which was once confined to the margins and comments, captions and within the videos themselves. Now they have a dedicated space on the platform.
In this modern era where video and image content predominantly command attention, Tik Tok's latest update is a testament to the company's recognition of the power in appeal of the written word. A platform has always been a powerhouse of creative content, with users leveraging its tools to share personal stories, choreographed dances, comedic
skits and much more. And the introduction of text posts only extends this creative range, facilitating new ways for users to share everything from poignant stories to recipes to poems. Now, Tik Tok's Text Post feature offers a simple and straightforward creation process. Users can navigate to the camera page, which previously offered photo and video content creation options. Alongside these options sticks a
new text option. And selecting this directs the user to a dedicated text creation page where they can pour their thoughts and creativity into the text of their posts. Now, despite the textual focus, the new text posts are by no means static or dull. On the post page, users can discover a host of enhancement options to make their text posts as dynamic or interactive as
their video or photo posts. They can add sound to their text posts, a feature that keeps true to TikTok score experience and can elevate the post tone or the mood. Location. Tagging and enabling comments and duets make the text posts interactive, while stickers and a variety of background colors and a visual element, making the text posts appealing and distinctive.
And perhaps what are the best features of this new iteration is a direct challenge to Musk's X. It's the ability for text posts to include tags and hashtags. Users can tag other TikTok accounts, a valuable tool for collaborative content creation, or to credit sources or inspiration. And the hashtags allow creators to connect their content with trending topics or threads, decreasing the reach and visibility within the broader
TikTok community. TikTok, owned by Chinese multinational technology company Byte Dance, has been soaring in popularity across the globe and in contrast, Musk's takeover of Twitter, now known as X in October, has been tumultuous. His 10 year has witnessed a wave of layoffs, A precipitous drop in advertising revenue, and a series of controversial changes to the platform's verification policy, stirring unease within the company's platform and the user base.
Now the landscape of social media platforms is evolving and companies relentlessly innovate to retain their users and attract new ones. And the launch of Tik Tok's Text Only Post feature may therefore come as a significant blow to Musk and X. As it gives TikTok a considerable edge in terms of user engagement and content
diversity. However, the challenges that Musk faces do not end with TikTok Meta, Facebook's parent company, has recently made its foray into the social media rivalry with a launch of Threads, a new platform that seems to have struck A chord with users worldwide. Now the site reported a staggering 100 million user sign ups in its inaugural week, signaling A potentially disruptive player in the social media domain.
Meanwhile, in the midst of these significant shifts, Musk initiated a new chapter for Twitter on Monday, rebranding it as X, complete with a fresh website domain and a new logo, And it's yet unclear what impact this rebranding will have on the platform's user base and its future growth. However, it certainly cements the notion that the world of social media is still in a state of flux, and these platforms must constantly innovate to stay relevant and competitive.
Talks text post feature. While seeming simple at first glance could have far reaching implications for the platform in the social media landscape as a whole. By acknowledging and celebrating the power of the written word, TikTok may inspire a new wave of creators who prefer expressing
themselves through text. And for the community of writers, poets, critics and thinkers who might have found the video centric nature of TikTok daunting or ill fitting to their mode of expression, this is a welcome change. And at the same time, for existing TikTok creators, the feature adds another layer to their content creation abilities. Again, now complement the videos with written content, providing more context, reflections or
narrative to their followers. This can potentially enhance the engagement and resonance of their content. A Tik Tok's latest innovation reiterates its commitment to empowering creators and enhancing the user experience over there. As the platform steps into the textual content sphere, it remains to be seen how it will compete with X and Metas threads.
Now these innovations will continue to happen and these platforms will continue to. Compete for the foreseeable future and the race is on for the most dominant social media platform on the planet. Thank you so much for listening to the show today. I appreciate all of you out there. So please, if you could take a second and hit the subscribe or follow button on whatever podcast platform you're on right now, greatly appreciate the
help. We're going to be talking about Starbase. We're going to be talking a little bit about Falcon Heavy and the upcoming mission on the 26th, and we're also going to be talking about SpaceX and whatever comes to our mind. So first, there's nothing happening at Starbase. No. And no testing happening. Nothing happening at Starbase. There's a bunch of stuff happening at Starbase, but there's no testing. Larger testing and like cryogenic testing or things that could close down the roadways
for the foreseeable future. Closures were canceled for the 24th and the 25th of this week, so we're going to be moving on hopefully to maybe later this week, I'm 100% sure about that. But they already did some testing on booster and they've already done a bunch of testing on the ship. So it seems like the next step would be to maybe. I don't even know what the next step would be because they have the whole deluge system they have the OLM is.
Revamped There's so many things that could happen and we don't know the procedure for that anymore. And last week we've seen. Testing on Chip 25 we've seen. Testing on boosters 9 and 10, the Orbit launch mount also got tested fully, so we've seen the Dellage system, we've served like the new plane. At the bottom we've seen the quick disconnects, both of them working. The Obviously the chopsticks are working because they lifted up Booster 9 to put it on the launch mount.
So it seems like it's a fully. Functional stage zero. It looks like it, yeah. It seems like they're in a spot where they could what they know more now than they did before the first launch. It seems like they've got the processes figured out. They have, They've streamlined a lot of the processes because they need to be able to crank these things out. They want to launch two or three a day at some point. We'll. Have to see that. That would be insane.
I wouldn't know what to think at that point. Yeah, it's pretty impressive to watch how the last what, three months, I guess it's been or so since the first one, since the first orbital attempt and all the changes. And they're coming out of this way stronger than they went into it. And it should be really interesting to see. And as is typical with SpaceX, once they do something once. They know they've got it and they move on to the next thing. So they've already launched this
once. It didn't make it to orbit had some issues but they've already designed it once so they know what they're doing and now they're just moving on to what the next stage whatever that is, fixing the over the launch mouth and all those things tread looking into the hot fire situation which I'm not exactly sure how that's going to figure that in the end but. We'll see, yeah. The separate the stage separation is going to be the
most exciting part. The launch, I think they're going to be Okay. I don't know. We're not 100% sure if they're going to be okay with that one, but the stage separation is going to be wild. But it's going to. If the engineers and everybody at SpaceX thinks that's the way to go, it seems like a really proper way to separate this thing because it is freaking massive. Yeah. Do you know, do you know if Booster 9 and Ship 25 are set up for that? I don't believe they are.
I don't believe they're set up for separation. Elon said something about it in a tweet, but I'm not exactly sure what he said about it or what booster or ship will be for a separation like that. It might be, they might have already set it up, but I like I've seen all the pictures and the videos and things of the booster I'm. Sure, but I'm pretty sure it's still in development stage. Yeah, these two vehicles are designed for it.
Yeah, it seems like a new thing where they're like, ooh, that didn't work. They'll probably want to test that masses or something, but want to test a fire on the Dome to make sure that it's not going to melt through or whatever. Yeah, I'm trying to get it, I guess, to you. Yeah, I don't believe that. I don't think these are set up for sure. Yeah, I don't think so either. Like you and I were talking before the broadcast started about the massiveness of this rocket and how, like, how big.
And I always say it like every time I get online, I'm like, this thing's frigging huge. Yeah, but this shows. Think about how big your car is. And how big you are. And then look at the scale of this compared to a vehicle, like just a regular car. It's absolutely massive. So getting so crazy, it still blows my mind. Like I've seen in person, so I know how big it is, but just even seeing pictures of it, I'm like, okay. This reminds me how big massive it is.
To think about launching A skyscraper. They're basically launching A skyscraper to orbit. And how do they do that 30? 3 Raptor engines and that works like. That's a lot of fuel. That's a. Lot of awful, lot of fuel, awful lot of thrust. And they made. It off the pad. Last time, so the deluge system was tested. We know that. We know the deluge system was tested and it.
Do you think they're going to do a static fire with the deluge system to test this deluge and the static fire at the same time? Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. I was just thinking about that well before we went on as well. Yeah, I think that every static fire from a booster from now on, we'll have the deluge running. Yeah, I think so too. I think it's ongoing testing as well as protection of the launch map. Yeah, sure.
And as long as obviously the deluge system works and it doesn't completely need to rip it apart, I get to the Country class. The Skip real, real quick back to how big this thing is. Rocket Future Andrew C at the Rocket Future on Twitter. You can see a person. This is the this is like 1/4 of the way up this thing. Yeah. And what a beautiful shot. A great shot. Yeah. And I don't even understand how these people have the nerve to get into this lift, for one. Because I'm afraid.
Of heights, but two. And then they have to do like one of the world's most complicated engineering feats. So they have the pressure of, Oh yeah, I'm 150 feet off the ground or whatever. So I have to do these things that are crucial to get this thing off the ground and not blow up. So, yeah, obviously. That's the Rocket Garden. I'm not sure exactly what ship he's working on. My guess in this Booster 10. I don't know why they would be. Have anybody up on one of the
retired boosters, if you will? Yeah. My guess is that's Booster 10, but I haven't confirmed that you just saw that picture just before we go on. Yeah, shout out to anybody that goes up in these things and shout out to. Andrew C from The Rocket Future for taking beautiful shots repeatedly at Starbase. So at the Rocket Future on Twitter you'll follow him. Awesome dude. And also awesome shots. Booster 9, like we said, was lifted up onto the launch mount.
What a beautiful shot to like. How cool is this? Yeah, gorgeous. They got the shot from below and also all the stars and above in the sky. It's such a cool shot. And the lighting on the launch mount, it makes it look just illuminated and amazing. And chopstick as you said before they work, which is great. Apparently they seem to be working fine as can you notice the there's some cladding at the bottom of the launch tower to see that there's some. It looks like there's some
reinforcements at the. For sure, yeah. At the tower, it looks like they figured. Out. The plan actually was to clad the entire tower in something, whether it was going to be as protective as this is. I don't know, but so this certainly seems to be productive. I love this shot because it looks like there's camo drawn all over the Starship because of the shadows. I. Didn't even notice that. Who star should say it looks like it looks really futuristic? Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah.
I didn't even notice that. Wow. Yeah. And then there's another one they have from a little bit different angle. But yeah, it's still the Texas night sky, which is absolutely beautiful. That's one thing that I can say about. My time down there is that you could see all the stars, everything, because it was 25 miles away from Brownsville and everything else. You could look up and you could see everything.
I would spend some nights down there just to get away from the lights of the city and I would just go to the beach late at night, just hang out, look at the rocket and just stare up at the stars. I would just lay on. I didn't really lay on the sand because it's you get sand everywhere. And of course it's just. Anakin knows it's everywhere, it gets everywhere, and it's coarse. It's coarsed so. I lay on my car like late at night, look up at the sky and
just look over. Oh yeah, there's a big rocket. There, too. But it's a beautiful place, Yeah. And it's a great place to launch a rocket, too. Yeah, what a great shot, though. We're getting into the beauty of all of this as well because we're like, it's such a cool thing. That Starship is going to be capable of in the future, bringing huge loads to space, and it's going to be, it's going to be wild what happens. I'm not sure whether it's
actually going to happen. I don't know if it's actually going to happen, but once they've got this thing down pat and they're launching right, left and center, I hope that they put some attention to the aesthetics of it all. Certainly it's a beautiful ship, all stainless steel and pretty, but it would be nice if we started seeing that.
Science fiction future at some point at once, they've got they're launching 100 of these a month or whatever they do want to do. They start to look into it and go. OK, how can we make this not only functional but look really awesome as well? Because that's one thing that society's lost, I think, in the last 30 years or so, is that aesthetics of things. We're so concerned about making things as cheap as possible that we've made it as as industrial as possible as well.
It'll be nice to get back to those servers aesthetic values of the 50s where you've got the streamlining or shapes and whatnot. It'd be cool to see that come back. I don't even think about that future. So do you think they would, do you think they would paint the whole rocket or do you think they would just slap a logo on it or what do you how are you feeling about this? I don't know what I'm thinking.
I don't know what it is, but maybe the cladding over some of the plumbing on the booster gets a little bit of a. A treatment where it's a little bit smoother or a little more aerodynamics, OK, as opposed to the sort of square, bulky look that we've got now. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not responsible for that. If they want me to be responsible for it, I'm available to the moment. I hadn't put too much thought into it. Yeah, no, that sounds awesome,
but I'm just going back. To to, or discussing them putting the cladding up the tower, right? Yeah, it's in all the drawings, but they never did it. Little things like that are even one step closer. Plus, we're talking about Starbase. He wants to build a city there, right? Yeah, That's to support all the launches in construction. Whatnot's going on down there? And development. It'd be nice to see Starbase become a little bit more
aesthetic than Factory, yeah? Yeah, I think I'll be amazing. Make it a tourist destination for sure. Right now it is, but it's like you got to really be end of this stuff to go down there if you got to sacrifice a little bit to get down there. Yeah, I think it's something Kennedy Space Center. It's a. It's like Disney A. Little bit. People go there just to go see rockets and stuff that are interested in Space Flight and engineering.
And maybe just like the unknown people are like, hey, this is a giant rocket or hey, this is what Saturn does or whatever, there's engineering and science all over the place down there, so. The I think this would be a really cool thing. Have tours of it when they're not actually launching or when they're not, whether or not testing. Have a guided tour of the
facility or something like that. I don't know if ITAR would allow that, but you could have a guided tour along the road and show people, hey this is this, Bay does this, we're building this here, blah blah blah. It would also be really cool if they they could even do that on their socials instead of having people down there in person. It would be really neat if Elon did a tour of everything like he did with Tim.
The everyday astronaut. But he does it like for a produced video for SpaceX, which would be really cool and to show hey, this is what we do here now, but we want to do this here too. That would be really interesting to see too. Absolutely have a manager or something. It doesn't have to be Elon, but Elon would get the most that. Has to be Elon, yeah, one of his clones. Yeah, yeah, maybe Gwen could do it. That would be cool. Yeah, yeah. They're not doing anything right. Yeah.
What's that doing? I think she's not. I don't mind. Coming out and do a tour for regular folk. Yeah. She's not been in the future over there, not at all. Yeah. Yeah. So the future Starbase looks pretty bright in the next few, I don't know. So they're so we were talking about the processes before and how they've streamlined everything. But do you think they've streamlined it to to a better place where they could launch
this in August? I reached out to a few people on Face or not on Facebook, but on. On YouTube and on Twitter, and a little bit on Discord. And here's one person old gamer noob on YouTube said the way the ship was tested with an engine static fire right off the bat, and with the booster now having already been fully filled with cryogenic liquids, I'd venture they'll unify some tests and make quick work of things. The FAA will be the main hold up this time I think.
So I have to agree that I think the FDA is going to be the last step. Of course I'm going to do. Going to show that there it is right there, old game renoob. Yeah, I believe I'm on record several places back when the first launch happened and we saw the damage, I said the weekend of August 19th before our launch and I still stand on that. I think we're still go on that, on a go on that. If the FA gave them permission today, I think they could probably attend the launch in a week.
I think that they're at that stage they need to static fire. They've already static fires 25 and they were happy they didn't replace any Raptors and whatnot. Yep, they need to static fire 9 Booster 9 and I think that they could be ready to go right after that as long as everything was just was operating as it was. I think the hold up again will be as you say, the FAAI think
there was a lot of damage. To the compound as but as well as the a lot of concrete spread over the area around the launch site. So I think that there's a bits are in there that they'll want to address and get answered and then they're likely doing that already from the day at launch. I'm sure they've been talking to yeah and giving reports on everything they're doing to repair things and whatnot and prevent it from happening again the future.
So I don't think it's going to be as long a wait for the FA to to secure this, but it's just a matter of time. But yeah, I think that's a little less than a month I will be launching this thing. Wow. Yes, I stay by it. I stand by it.
I think you're pretty right. I'm going to venture to say it's going to be a little bit later, maybe septemberish maybe, but Elon, even Elon was like, yeah, middle of August can be ready by the middle of August. And like you said they were talking to, they've been talking to the FA. Probably an hour. Like within hours of the last launch. Within probably minutes. Within the last launch, the FA was probably on the horn.
Hey, what just happened, buddy? That just blew everything out there and they had these steps in place before they launched the first one and like they had lots of rockets. Over the years. Lots of rockets over the years that have blown up on the launchpad. Yep. Causing all kinds of damage. Yep, it's just this is just another one. Yeah, and this didn't blow up in Launchpad, it blew up the Launchpad. Same sort of deal, same kind of
damage probably. I would imagine the only difference being that the tanks for all the cryogenic fluid and stuff were a little bit closer at the launch site than they were the Cape I believe. But so that's probably the big difference here. I think that the it's just a up matter of time to get past these things, but it's happened before. And you know what? They expected it to blow up in the sky, then they expected to
get off the launchpad. And the F knew that, so it's just a matter of satisfying them, and I think that won't be hard at all. Yeah, I agree with you. I think they like they're showing them all the data that they get as they get it. They're showing them how we're they're mitigating the problems that were on the pad. And I think they'll just go, it'll bring as much as they can, they'll breeze through this and then they'll be ready to launch.
Now if the water deliard system and the statics fire static fires work perfectly the first time. They might do like A7 static fire, like A7 engine and then the 14 or whatever, and then go to 21 and be like can't static fire everything. So now we're going to launch it and then they'll stack it up and do a fill test probably on both the rocket or the ship and the booster maybe like and then launch it up one more time just to make sure all the systems
work and then. Yeah. Did they do a static fire with the ship with ship 24 on top of eight? I don't think so, no. I don't think they did. Yeah, they were just. They don't do. I'm surprised they don't do that, to be honest. I am, but I'm also. I totally understand why they don't, because if they do a static fire again one, it's almost like they're wasting time. I think because they've already done it. They've already tested those engines and they've already tested all the systems.
The only system that they wouldn't be able to test without the ship on top was like, is the ship going to fall off the booster? Yeah, and but that was part of the problem, right? Is that it didn't release, Yeah. So is there anything to be seen, observed from a static fire and how those lock pins work some place? I would like to see that. And they did it. They've already launched this once.
We talked about this earlier. SpaceX is very happy doing things once, having it work and moving on and saying that's the way we're going to do it every time. Yep. They only they've only really landed one ship successfully. Oh yeah, you're right. They moved on. They immediately move on to say we've done it, we're good. You did it. Move on. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're going to need to prove that again. In my mind, but not in their
minds. Apparently they've already launched the ship once in their minds. Is everything cool? Let's just go for it. Do they put 25 on top of nine and then stand fire and then launch? I don't think. I don't think they need to. Yes, but. As opposed to I'm sorry, as opposed to static fire 9 on its own. Ooh, OK do they just? Jump to the watch. Basically just OK. So this is I think this. Could be an issue because if they static fire with the ship on top of the booster, could the
ship get rattled? Which is better than when it's in the air. Move out of place? They might have to readjust it, just better. Yeah. I think that's the whole point of static firing with the ship on top is the seat that. Would make sense, Yeah. That would make 100% sense. Will SpaceX do that? Probably not, because they're just like I work last time. We didn't do it last time and it seemed to work. I don't.
Know I can. I'm leaning more towards them not static firing 9 before the ship's on top, statifying it once and then launching. Oh, like a 20 something odd. Engine static fire maybe? Yeah, something with. The ship on top and this, hey, it didn't fall off saying let. Go, guys. Everyone looks cool. Let's launch tomorrow. Yeah, that makes more. Sense, which is the standard process for Falcon launch as
well, right? Yeah, yeah, it put it on the thing, the static fire, and then the next day or two they launch. Yeah, so the ship would be something like the like a fairing or something on a regular on a Falcon rocket. Just the same thing. There's a huge faring. It's a second stage, right? Yeah, second stage, gigantic second stage. So that would make sense that they do that. That's where they want to get. To I think that's where you have to get to eventually.
It's it skips what like a week and a half of testing because they do a static fire, then they like have to close down the roads. You have to get the data from that static fire, wait about 3 days or so, refuel it. That makes way more sense, way more sense. Will they do it for this one? Yeah, but to say if not this one, then the next one, I bet they try and do it, yeah, yeah. I would love them. I didn't even think about that until you just said that. So my mind's going crazy.
But it seems like they're just Wis. Just like straight through all these tests. This happened real quick. They already had the booster there. The ship. Yeah, Everything is being tested at Massey's beforehand. Everything's getting ready to roll. I don't remember. When it was that. Yeah, I don't remember when it was that my fear went away that the ship was going to implode when they're doing a cryo test, probably 6-7, maybe, right? Not seven, but maybe ship eight.
That is when I started to think, OK, this thing's going to actually not going to implode and it's going to work. And I still, it boggles my mind that we're talking about four millimeters of or five millimeters of stainless steel holding all this cryogenic fluid in place. Yet at least I feel confident that it's not going to implode. Of course, Speaking of implosions, the test ship said 27 that you could see the Dome top Dome of that imploded after the last testing. That is interesting.
That is interesting. Obviously, we're testing that to failure. They wanted that to happen. Yeah. I think an implosion is better than an explosion in that case. Yep. I think they're probably quite happy with the results of that. You get to this, whatever they were testing, Yeah. Whatever. They were testing new steel or new systems or whatever happened to be, Yeah. I think they're, yeah. And if they move past that, they'll have Ship 28. Ship 29.
I don't even know how many ships are down there now I have, I've lost count of which ships are down there and what boosters are of like readily available because I'm focusing on the ship that's going to launch and the other stuff that's happening. It's super important. But also like it's off there somewhere and I think that's where everybody else is at too, is that this is an amazing feat that will happen. Like you said, Ship 10. Ship 10 head or not ship 10, but
booster. They're doing the booster, all sorts of boosters and ships and testing everything. It's like, how can they keep track of everything? And I'll just I'll. Leave that space. They have an Excel spreadsheet. To be honest with you, they're probably yeah, they're fine, they're fine. Yeah, I know that they're building Ship 30 right now. Believe they're setting that and it looks pretty slick.
Like, it's starting to really look like they know what they're doing as far as the tiles go and all of that. It just happens now and it's got a. It's got the that would be insane, even. I think it. We need to keep thinking that they're moving forward. We need to keep thinking that they're thinking, what's the next step? This next ship's going to make it orbit. So next one after that, why don't we throw some startlings up? May as well.
That makes they have to move forward with the Starlink program as fast as possible. They need to make money and getting. Eczema. What is it like 10 I think at the at this time for the regular like? Falcon money, yeah. Yeah, stuff like that for a Falcon launch. Like they're like throwing away money at this point when they can get like 20 or 30 in a Starship.
So does one Starship launch, even if it's an expendable Starship, which is probably going to happen for the next 10 starships, then at least get some star links up there and make the money back from the Starship launch. Yep, that make that money back fund Starship.
And just keep going with it and that's how they're going to fund the Starship program going forward is I think that the Star Link launches and they also have, they have some customers like at Bay like just ready to launch on this thing, it's once it's ready to go. Once it's proven. Yeah, once it's proven and they know that they can get satellites into orbit, they know they can get heavy. They need a heavy lift rocket to get some stuff up there.
I wonder. If we see, I wonder if we start to see satellite companies building flat satellites. That could be just has dispensed if you will, as opposed to the traditional box shaped satellite. Whether they start to compress them and make them fit out that door, I wonder, good idea. But maybe they can assemble themselves once they're launched or something like that. Yeah, like a the solar panels roll out and whatnot. Like how the James Webb Telescope unfurled it.
And yeah, exactly like that. It would certainly make everything less complicated and you could put. 15 Star Link and three regular satellites and this, that and the other just stacked them in order in the in the Starship and keep launching them out as you need to. That'd be incredible. I'm trying to find at this point. Remember they had a PES, They had a Starship where the front opened like that. I was trying to find that graphic but I can't find it. That was what's in my head, I'm
thinking. I wonder if that even makes sense anymore. I don't unless. You're unless you're perhaps collecting an old satellite to fix it or just to get rid of space check or something like that. I wonder if that even makes sense anymore whether the pest dispenser is the way the future for that sort of thing. Because how big of a satellite you really need to launch these days with micro everything right. Yeah. This thing is still going to be what's probably 6 meters wide
out imagine at the very least. Yeah. And who? And that's probably. I don't know how tall the pet Spencer is, but probably a meter at least, if not more. Yeah, so 6 meters by 1 meter and then unfurls to whatever size you need. I don't know that you need a subway larger than that these days. Yeah, everything's smaller. Now you can. We have the world's knowledge. So much in these box satellites they're sending out and the yeah, the cube sats and everything.
Yeah, that's what I meant to say. Same thing. They're a box. Yeah, so Speaking of satellites, this whole start Starship thing is predicated by the Falcon Heavy launch, so there's a readiness review happen for a target of Wednesday, July 26th for Falcon Heavy's launch of the Hughes Connex Jupiter 3E Star 14 said. Like why do they make these names get? Launched. You got enough names. Come on, man. This kid somebody. Short of it, it's a
communication satellite. Yeah, yeah, it's a communication satellite. It's going to be the heaviest geostationary satellite ever launched at just over 9 metric tons. Wow. Yeah, size. It is probably not, no, I don't think. They I don't think they gave us any. Sort of. It fits inside the basically 4 meter wide, probably 5 meter wide fairing, right? Yeah, yeah. So it's quite large. I'm sure it's nine metric tons. The thing is like 9 tons for a satellite. What is in there? That's.
And this is supposed to be graded. All new technology, micro technology version of this, these kinds of satellites. This is the obviously the state-of-the-art communication satellite. Interesting that it's still that big. Yeah, not 9 tons. That's so how. What? A couple tons for a car? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, five cars base. Yeah, maybe 5 cars. That's how much it weighs. What's in this thing? We don't know. Like how much technology can you pack into this thing?
There's a KA band. It's a Ka band satellite. Multispot BMK A band satellite based on the highly reliable L 1300 space proven platform which provides the flexibility to support a Broadway. This in your head, do you, dude? I'm just. I know IT and technology advances, and not just know some stuff. It features an entirely new architecture based on broad range of technology advances, including the mini miniaturization of electronics. OK, miniaturization. 9 tons.
Does that make sense? They're still made of gold. Yeah, that features entirely new architecture. Best we did, look this up. Yeah, the KA band is microwave band, microwave range. That's how it's setting, beaming things back and forth to earth. Yep. So that's coming up on the 26th. That's going to be a pretty wild launch and they say approximately 8 minutes after launch Falcon Heavy side boosters will return to Earth in land on landing zones one and two.
So we're going to take a look at how that. Works. That's my favorite kind of landing for these. Yeah, side by side. So cool, man. Keep in mind these things are seven story buildings. Yeah, and they just gently place them back on Earth. And it's so cool. I love how the legs open for the last second. Everything's just so well timed. There's no, they don't cover anything. They just come down at a very consistent rate and settle down to earth so beautifully.
Yeah, I mean Target. I so I think about these landings and then I think about Blue Origins landings. And I'm always afraid when Blue Origin lands its booster because it bounces, these go like they do a little these do a little tiny shuffle and kind of little tiny sway. But Blue Origins kind of like boink and you're like.
And in the cover, like they're not quite sure, are we actually going to do this and then boing wing, wing instead of gradually, slowly, like lowering your booster back, OK, we get to the last, what, 7 feet or something those are. I don't know the actual size, but they're probably 1/4 of the height of this. It's just completely different. Yeah, it's so cool, man. Like we we are literally living in the future. This is insane. This is something. Will happen.
Yeah, this is pretty normal. We expect these. Boosters of lands? No problem. Tomorrow. Yeah, something goes wrong. We'll be like, whoa. Yeah, You know, we'll have questions for months, but yeah. And as you can see how big they are, you can see the architecture around it. These pipes are quite large. There's little buildings, there's fuel tanks, there's some ground systems here. All these things are quite large. But like you said, it's like a seven story building. Huge. It's gigantic.
Massive. Yeah, and they just hover down. Maybe you can see the top of the boosters they have the. I forgot what they're called the the engines at the top that that puff engines. What are? They called. I can't remember what they're called, but why can't I think of it? Puff engines, so the. Little puff puffs at the top there. That guide them in I believe. They called the. Yeah, the yeah, you can see them guiding them in and they go real fast too.
Like it's ridiculous how fast these systems go as you're landing A7 story building. So yeah absolutely insane absolutely crazy that this is actually happening again because Falcon heavies gigantic still but nine metric tons for a satellite that yeah. Makes sense. I don't know it's yeah it's made of lead Thor's hammers in there. I. Wonder how many more heavy launches we have. Falcon Heavy launches? Yeah, Falcon Heavy watches. I wonder how many more there are
left. Because yeah, I think Starship takes it over. It's cheaper. I think launch Starship that it is Falcon Heavy. I think so too. I think usable. I think three years. I don't think they'll. I don't think they'll retire it. I think it'll be there for specific use cases but I don't think. I don't think we're going to see as many. I think 1 Starship is moon ready for the next few years. I think like the low Earth orbit stuff is going to be no big
deal. So three years, you're thinking 6 launches, something like that, yeah, maybe, yeah, 5-6 launches and then that's it. Like I think unless like I was saying, there's certain use cases for it, but I don't see why Starship wouldn't be able to do those use cases as well. Starship would do everything this thing can do, and 10 times more. Yeah, it is.
Sure. Maybe if there's something that's not big enough to go into a Starship, something that's just only needs a fairing for a Falcon Heavy or a Falcon. That's why I say you just pack it in, put it in the best Spencer and shoot it out as needed and send some more stylics up. SpaceX revolutionized rockets, so why wouldn't they revolutionize the delivery system as well if they're like, hey, if you want to launch out of Starship, you have to build your architecture for our
device. It's like your phone, like you have your If you're going to build an app for a phone, you have to build it according to Apple's procedures. So if you're going to build a satellite for our rocket, you have to build according to our procedures, Yeah. Or. You can use the Falcon Heavy, but it's going to cost you three times as much. Yeah. Planned obsolescence. Good job, SpaceX. Good job. They did it. Oh man, they did it. They're a tech company. They did it.
Steve Jobs would be proud. I can't wait for Starship to have some. DLC Oh yeah, $0.99 DLC is all right your. Satellite's up there now. In order to launch it, we're going to need. $11 million, yeah, we're going to meet $1,000,000 subscription plan per month or you can buy the. 1 year subscription plan for 11 months, Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I think that's it for today. I think we covered everything we
want to cover. So what we got out of this is that maybe they'll stack a ship on top of the booster and static fire it. That's my take away from this is that might be a really interesting and exciting thing. And we're thinking a month or two for a launch. Yep. Yep. That'll be absolutely insane. I can't wait. I think it's going to be really cool. And I can't wait for the just. It's going to be the most impressive thing if it actually works. Yeah. Very cool, man. Yeah. Same here.
All right, I guess that's it. Bye, everybody. I don't have a goodbye screen because we're doing a different platform. Yeah. Thanks, Neil. Thank you for continuing to bring all this awesome info to all your fans. Yeah, thanks to all the fans. And thank you for helping out. And yeah, thanks to everybody for spending your time here with me today. Take care of yourselves and each other. Bye. Bye.