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SpaceX's 11th Starship Launch and Elon's Vision for Space

Oct 14, 202526 minEp. 71
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Episode description

In this episode, we discuss SpaceX's groundbreaking (and explosive) launch of the fully stacked Starship, marking a key step for Mars colonization. 

We discuss the advanced heat shield, potential cost reductions for launches, and the new Starlink V3 satellites enhancing global internet access. We also dive into the engineering marvel of the Raptor 3 engines, and SpaceX's vision for the future of space travel.

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0:00 SpaceX Launch and Explosions
1:49 Importance of the Starship Launch
3:03 The Heat Shield Breakthrough
5:14 Building a Sustainable Future on Mars
7:35 Satellites and Starlink V3
9:51 The Size and Structure of Starship
14:14 Innovations in Raptor Engines
16:17 SpaceX's Unique Position in the Industry
17:21 The Vision for Life on Mars
19:21 The Future of Space Travel
22:04 The Next Generation of Rocket Technology
24:01 Conclusion and Future Launches

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Transcript

SpaceX Launch and Explosions

Josh: So just yesterday spacex launched their fully stacked Josh: starship which measures almost 500 feet Josh: tall it's the largest object that's ever gone to space and two parts went up Josh: both parts came down and they both exploded catastrophic explosion and the explosion Josh: was gigantic everything that went up came down everything blew up but the point Josh: of this mission is that that's actually exactly how it was supposed to go. It was a wild success.

Josh: These test flights, when SpaceX sends these up, they're not expected to land. Josh: In fact, most times they don't. And this is the first time where it actually Josh: landed in the right place. Josh: So Ijaz, what you're seeing in this video here is the booster that is kind of Josh: hovering above ground before falling into the ocean and exploding. So this was amazing. Josh: Ijaz, I know you were also watching the launch last night. What were your first

Josh: impressions? What did you think watching this?

Ejaaz: My first impressions was, why is this thing Ejaaz: exploding josh and i have to be honest for Ejaaz: our listeners here um josh i see you're rocking the Ejaaz: spacex hoodie let's go you can Ejaaz: see that i'm rocking a horse which is pretty much the opposite of a rocket i'm Ejaaz: old school i'm old-fashioned and i'm like okay this rocket is cool alon's launched Ejaaz: a bunch of spaceships already what's so special about this and after digging

Ejaaz: under the hood josh this is actually super impressive. Ejaaz: I think the one line which kind of like bamboozles me about SpaceX's vision Ejaaz: is they're building the infrastructure for space. Ejaaz: I think up until, you know, very recently, many people thought of space as like Ejaaz: this kind of like cool thing. It's like, yeah, it's a once in a lifetime mission.

Ejaaz: It's going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But what SpaceX is trying Ejaaz: to do is reduce the cost of that to the equivalent of like a bus ride, Ejaaz: So that becomes pretty normal to colonize humans outside of Earth.

Importance of the Starship Launch

Ejaaz: But can you explain why this launch is so important, Josh? Josh: Yeah. So Starship Mission, I mean, like you were saying, to back it up, Josh: is the intention is to get to Mars. Josh: And they're very dead set on getting to Mars. And the problem with getting to Josh: Mars is that you need to have a low cost per kilogram to orbit. Josh: That's kind of how this thing works is if you can't get mass to orbit, Josh: then you can't create a copy of Earth to live on Mars.

Josh: And the thing with colonizing Mars is that you actually need every single thing Josh: that Earth needs in order to be self-sustainable in the case that the planes Josh: or the rockets stop coming. Josh: So, Ejaz, if you send, let's say, 100 million tons to Mars, but you forget vitamin Josh: C, everything dies over a certain period of time. Josh: So you really need to be able to deliver every single critical element for life.

Josh: And that requires a ton, literally metric tons of mass to orbit. Josh: And the problem is getting that Josh: cost down to as low as humanly possible. So back in the day in this with the Josh: space shuttle program, it cost $60,000 per kilogram to orbit. Josh: With the new starship, the projection is hopefully going to be as low as $50 per kilogram to orbit. Josh: So this is like a huge decrease in how they're able to do this.

Josh: And the reason they're able to do this is because of rapid reusability.

The Heat Shield Breakthrough

Josh: And that's what we saw yesterday. That was the idea of the test yesterday is Josh: to test how reusable these rockets are. Josh: So we probably should talk about the reason why this test in particular was Josh: different than all the others. And it's because of the heat shield. Josh: Now, the heat shield is a very critical part of this rocket because the heat Josh: shield is the single most challenging part to get right in order for the rocket to relaunch itself.

Josh: So what we're seeing here is the crux of the heat shield, the way that they've Josh: been able to make it work.

Josh: Because a lot of times, the reason why a rocket can't survive is when it comes Josh: back to orbit at 25 000 kilometers per hour uh Josh: it's really freaking hot and that's a lot of plasma it's a lot of heat Josh: and it just melts everything but what we're seeing here on screen is this Josh: thing called the bakery where starship literally bakes Josh: 18 000 of these tiles the same way your grandma Josh: would they take some ceramic they throw it in an oven they cook

Josh: it and on the way out comes out these little hexagons they stack Josh: 18 000 of them together and it blocks Josh: the shields from overheating the problem is again Josh: you just the reusability where you need to be able to get this Josh: rocket back to earth and then take off rapidly right afterwards and Josh: the problem is that they've been falling apart like they've kind of fallen Josh: off some of them don't hold some of them

Josh: can't resist the heat properly so what they did is they invented this thing Josh: called the crunch wrap which is such an outrageous name shout out from taco Josh: bell yeah we're seeing the crunch wrap supreme literally like the crunch wrap Josh: supreme that's where they get the inspiration from and i love this and what Josh: we're seeing on screen is oh they were actually able to take these tiles, Josh: these little ceramic plates, and they wrap them in this felt material.

Josh: And the problem when you're going through space really hot is the metal expands Josh: and contracts quite a bit. Josh: So you need to have space in between the tiles, but that space let a lot of heat in. Josh: So what they did is they created this kind of malleable material, Josh: which is the felt, and it allows the metal to heat up and expand and condense Josh: and shrink while keeping these heat shields all intact. And it was amazing.

Josh: And what happened on this launch was they lost less than 1% of the heat shield Josh: tiles, where in the past, they lost 5% to 10%. Josh: So the fact that they got this number down so low is the single probably biggest Josh: win of this entire test flight yesterday that we saw was the fact that they Josh: have a reusable heat shield. It's never been done before at this scale.

Building a Sustainable Future on Mars

Ejaaz: Okay, so if I were to summarize what you just said, Josh, Ejaaz: you're saying that the reason why Elon is testing out so many of these rockets Ejaaz: and blowing all of these up is to come to the ideal rocket architecture that Ejaaz: can colonize humanity outside of Earth. Have I got that first part right? Josh: Absolutely. Yeah. You got to build something that scales and that can be mass manufactured.

Ejaaz: Okay, cool. And so to get there, he needs to reduce the cost of taking heavy stuff up, right? Ejaaz: Like right now, when it started off with the first rocket from NASA, Ejaaz: it was super expensive, hundreds of millions of dollars. Ejaaz: Reducing that cost to something much, much cheaper than that is important, Ejaaz: but also reusability is important, right? Josh, that's one way to kind of like drive it down.

Ejaaz: It's like, if I can use the same rocket ship over and over again and not have Ejaaz: to reconstruct a new rocket ship every time one comes down and crashes, Ejaaz: we should be fine, right? So both of those things kind of are running in parallel. Ejaaz: And you're saying one major factor to help us get there are these heat-proof Ejaaz: shields or these heat-proof tiles, which are getting built in this SpaceX bakery. Ejaaz: That's what we're calling it, right? These countries.

Ejaaz: Are these things literally made of ceramic, by the way?

Josh: They're literally made of ceramic. It's so funny. it's just like what you did Josh: in like elementary school middle school art class um it's no different than Josh: that they put a little coat on the top it's like a little more sophisticated Josh: than that but basically they're just baking ceramic taco Ejaaz: Okay so where my mind goes to immediately next josh is um with the things that Ejaaz: they're taking to space what what kinds of things are they going to be taking

Ejaaz: to space like i get the the mars thing right and that i still can't quite wrap Ejaaz: my head around because i'm like okay you like what materials are you taking that are you Ejaaz: bricks to build a house like how do we know if we can even live there but um Ejaaz: the most immediate thing that i remember us speaking about a few Ejaaz: episodes ago was satellites right and Ejaaz: these satellites are part of starlink v3 which is getting

Ejaaz: um you know their new satellite um structure which is Ejaaz: basically going to beam down i think it was like 60 terabits worth of data to Ejaaz: earth which is the equivalent of me having like super fast internet cabled internet Ejaaz: at home but anywhere i am like wherever i am if i'm on a quaint little mountainside Ejaaz: um where i usually won't have reception,

Ejaaz: Am I getting that right? Is there any other thing that I'm missing in between Ejaaz: satellites and building homes on Mars?

Satellites and Starlink V3

Josh: Well, that's pretty much it. Josh: It's satellites, and then the satellites fund the mission to get to Mars. Josh: So Starlink is one of the largest cash cows of SpaceX, along with the private Josh: missions that they send up on behalf of governments or private industry, Josh: where they will take large satellites and they will send them into space.

Josh: What Starship enables, like you said, it's just much Josh: bigger objects into orbit so like you Josh: mentioned the starlink v3 has 60 terabits of downlink Josh: speed per launch whereas the falcon Josh: 9 launches with the starlink v2 or 2.5 that Josh: they're at now they only had three terabits per second Josh: of downlink so every single one of these starship launches is equivalent Josh: to 20 old launches which is

Josh: just an outrageously large scale at how quickly they're going to improve this Josh: network and not only that but the latency comes down the total bandwidth goes Josh: way up it has a much further range and yeah we're seeing on screen kind of the Josh: difference between them so the version 1.5 fairly small version 2 pretty big Josh: version 3 is like gigantic it is dude Ejaaz: This is like much bigger 10 times larger than v 1.5.

Josh: So much larger and it's it's really exciting because version 3 satellites will Josh: enable people like me and you to actually be inclined to use the network a lot Josh: of people now for starlink the users they're in the middle of nowhere. Josh: They're not in very highly populated areas because that's where it kind of works Josh: the best. There's not a ton of bandwidth on the network. Josh: If you live in the middle of the woods somewhere remote, or if you live in like

Josh: some super foreign place in a jungle, you use Starlink. It works amazing. Josh: But when you apply these high bandwidth satellites, not only can you use them Josh: in more densely populated areas, but like we had in our episode a few weeks Josh: ago, you could actually go direct to cell. Josh: So EJs, if we're going on a hike somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Josh: well, now your cell phone could actually get service too, thanks to these new satellites.

Josh: So it enables this huge unlock in terms of satellites but then also in terms Josh: of SpaceX Starlink satellites but then also in terms of private industry there's Josh: a lot of telescopes there's a lot of rovers like a lot of these larger objects Josh: that want to go to space but have no vehicle to take them there Josh: Starship enables that and all of these tests like you were mentioning Starship Josh: the test flight 11 last night it's all in an effort to find a flight proven

Josh: architecture basically create the blueprint that you could then copy and paste Josh: and start doing this at scale like we saw with the last Rocket the Falcon 9.

The Size and Structure of Starship

Ejaaz: Okay, Josh, I want to talk about the spacecraft itself. Ejaaz: This thing is huge. What we're seeing is an image of this spacecraft next to some old models. Ejaaz: You know, we've got the old school NASA models. Ejaaz: And just height-wise, this thing is crazy. And it's super thin. Ejaaz: Like if i remember correctly the outer shell of this spacecraft is the thickness Ejaaz: of two credit cards put together sorry how is that possible.

Josh: It's outrageous they use hfs which stands for hard f and steel and he does if Josh: you if you that is the scientific name it's hfs i swear to you there's no way Ejaaz: That's right i'm gonna look that up.

Josh: Well it's real and actually you can go outside and see this right now you just Josh: because if you go and check out the cyber trucks that are rolling down the road Josh: which there are plenty of in the city um they are wrapped with the same exact Josh: hfs that is on starship it is just a cold rolled stainless steel that Ejaaz: Is super strong you're not lying.

Josh: It's called hfs um and it's it's Josh: remarkably strong strong that's why uh your cyber truck is bulletproof Josh: it's because it's made of the same stuff that starships are made of um and Josh: a lot of the the complexity comes from actually pressurizing the cabin Josh: so that they don't um either collapse under pressure or Josh: over expand under pressure but the scale is gigantic it is what we're seeing

Josh: here is um the starship basically consists of two parts there's the first stage Josh: which is at the bottom that's the booster they call that super heavy and then Josh: there's the second stage which is the actual ship on top and both of those ones stacked together Josh: 394 feet tall so that is equivalent to about 40 Josh: stories tall so you just if you ever stood on top of a 40-story building you've Josh: looked out that is the the view from the top of starship it is unbelievably

Josh: tall it's 30 taller than the statue of liberty i think it's 60 feet shorter Josh: than the great pyramid of giza this thing is like gigantic and yeah you can Josh: see here for scale on the video humans Ejaaz: People just look tiny yes so so so josh the the super heavy part part one the Ejaaz: booster is that primarily to get the ship you know up into the air is that primarily Ejaaz: just like fuel and rocket boosters.

Josh: That's exactly right so the the booster exists literally Josh: for its name to boost the ship into earth Josh: orbit or low earth orbit at least because earth's atmosphere is Josh: super dense it takes a lot of energy to break through it but once Josh: you've broken through it and you're in the low earth orbit and going into outer Josh: space there's a lot less atmosphere there's a lot less friction against your Josh: ship you just need that smaller top part to actually go

Josh: out into deep space um and this is where Josh: the payload is right exactly so the entire Josh: booster that whole bottom part that you're seeing it's all fuel Josh: 100 of that bottom part is fuel and then Josh: most of the top part is actually fuel too like a large percentage of Josh: the stack is just fuel and then towards the Josh: very top of the bay is about room for 150 Josh: tons of reusable payload um so it's

Josh: a lot of fuel and actually one of the interesting things that they're going to Josh: start doing with the next version version three of the Josh: rocket is they're going to refuel that top part in space Josh: so what they'll do is they'll send up two versions of the ship one Josh: is a tanker and then one is the actual ship they meet in Josh: orbit and they kind of like kiss each other and then one refuels the other and

Josh: that's how it's able to get out to mars um so it's this really remarkable thing Josh: what we're seeing here is the the rendering of the version three and that's Josh: that's exactly the kissing that i'm talking about they they have a tanker and Josh: then they have the ship and they connect and that's how you refuel it Ejaaz: So um this launch that we just watched um that was intentionally exploded is Ejaaz: the sign before we move on to this next version that we're seeing on our screens

Ejaaz: right josh can you tell us like what the major differences are and what we can expect.

Josh: Yeah so one of the biggest differences this is Josh: the thing that i am absolutely obsessed with is the raptor 3 engine so they Josh: have a whole new engine architecture that you're using and as a result a lot Josh: of things need to change so what you just saw in the past one it was a new fuel Josh: tank everything about the outside mostly looks the same everything about the Josh: inside is changing so the fuel distribution is changing a lot of the um

Josh: the telemetry things the grid fins that control the ship are changing but the Josh: most notable part is these raptor 3 engines and it is if you go back actually Josh: to that image i love this image so much because it shows the three iterations Josh: of raptor and it just shows like what what a great company is possible is is Josh: capable of doing seems much less Ejaaz: Complex than yes.

Innovations in Raptor Engines

Josh: But it's much more powerful too so that raptor 1 Josh: engine had was so complicated it looks Josh: like a bird's nest there's so much stuff going on it's really difficult to understand Josh: it has to have its own heat shield built in and it weighed Josh: 2 000 kilograms so it's not Josh: very reusable it weighs a ton and it Josh: is only able to i mean only able to the thrust that you can Josh: get out of it is 185 tons raptor 2 looks a lot more elegant and raptor 2 that

Josh: decreased the weight by 400 kilograms it has some more heat shield built in Josh: so there's a little less maintenance before and after each flight to reuse it Josh: but still pretty complicated and lifts the thrust up to 230 tons. Josh: Now, Raptor 3 looks like you could put that in a museum. It's gorgeous. Josh: All of the complexities are embedded inside of the engine. It is much more complex.

Josh: And yet, it has a record-setting 269 tons of thrust. It weighs 100 kilograms, even less than Raptor 2. Josh: And there are no major limitations, meaning it can just go up into orbit, Josh: come back down, relight, and go right back again. Josh: So it is this unbelievably complex engineering challenge that they took on and Josh: that they were able to do. Josh: And I think it's a testament to how SpaceX operates. It's just really considering Josh: these things from first principles.

Josh: Like, how can we make an engine the best possible thing using no off-the-shelf Josh: parts? All this is custom tooling.

Josh: And as a result, they got an engine that is way faster. And like, Josh: look at this video that's it is so much force that's that's 269 tons of thrust Josh: from one single engine um it's it's a marvel Ejaaz: This seems like something straight out of a movie josh um like i i feel like Ejaaz: if you tell anyone that um how many of these did you say are going to be in Ejaaz: the new new ship oh i want to.

Josh: Say there's 31 to 33 something like that there's a good bit of right Ejaaz: Right so if you told me that hey, 33 of these two credit cards worth thick Raptor Ejaaz: rockets are going to blast 150 tons and much, much more probably in V3.

SpaceX's Unique Position in the Industry

Ejaaz: Up into space, into orbit, I would probably laugh at you. I would be like, Ejaaz: this thing is flimsy. I don't know if I could trust this. Why is it wiggling around? Ejaaz: There is no other company that is building like this, Josh. And I was trying Ejaaz: to think about, you know, other kind of competitors that come even near SpaceX.

Ejaaz: And I just fall flat every single time. I think Elon and SpaceX and the engineers Ejaaz: and what they've built and what they've achieved to date is in a league of their own. Josh: Truly. There's nobody who's close. There's a lot of companies who are trying Josh: to build interesting things, but there is genuinely no one on Earth who's close Josh: in the sense that if SpaceX shuts down tomorrow, we have no space program.

Josh: We have no easy and affordable way of getting satellites into low Earth orbit. Josh: We have no aspirations for becoming multi-planetary species. Josh: We have no redundant internet. Josh: If we lose connection down on Earth, we have no secondary network to exist in Josh: space. So it is very much a monopoly. Josh: And you could start to understand why when you see how complex these things Josh: are, how big they are at scale.

Josh: And yeah, I love the image you're showing here because there's also really great culture there too.

The Vision for Life on Mars

Josh: This is an image from their, I guess, from Starbase, right? Where they take these things off from. Ejaaz: It's to get into Starship. Actually, it's the top level. Ejaaz: And before you walk in, you see this painting, which is just probably the most Ejaaz: inspiring thing ever if you're an astronaut going up in one of these things. Josh: And it's this beautifully like hand-painted astronaut holding his hand out, Josh: starship in the reflection, standing on Mars.

Josh: It's really amazing. And one of the funny things is a lot of people just, Josh: There's this disconnect between saying we're going to Mars and then actually Josh: understanding the downstream effects of getting to Mars. Josh: And I think a funny thing that I learned from following SpaceX over the years Josh: is that they actually have entire teams dedicated to coming up with life on Josh: Mars, meaning like here is everything we need to ship.

Josh: Here is how the government structure is going to look. Here is how we're going Josh: to like distribute supplies. Here is how we're going to build the first base, Josh: the second base, the third base. Josh: And there are teams that have been doing this for years because they are so Josh: certain that their mission will succeed, that they will be able to get life Josh: on Mars. And they do have a rough timeline trajectory.

Josh: I think first moon missions are going for 2028 and then the Mars mission around 2030, I believe.

Josh: So within the next five years, people will actually, or at least rockets will be on their way to Mars, Josh: which is, it's just cool it's a really exciting thing yesterday's launch Josh: was amazing progress everything that could have gone right Josh: went right um and it was really a step in the right direction because Josh: the last couple of launches this is this was launched number Josh: 11 they had some serious problems like there Josh: was one of the rockets it fully exploded prior

Josh: to even getting off the launch pad a total detonation destroyed Josh: the launch pad they had to rebuild it there was another rocket that um Josh: when it tried to get pressurized it totally exploded so there's been a lot of Josh: problems along the way last night's flight was amazing everything went about Josh: as good as it could have and what we're going to see soon is they're going to Josh: try to actually catch the starship rocket which is going to be a really exciting

Josh: development because once they get that thing caught Josh: We're on our way.

The Future of Space Travel

Ejaaz: I really hope this happens in my lifetime. I hope that the cost of travel to Ejaaz: get to space is affordable enough that I can go with me, my kids, Ejaaz: maybe even my mom and kind of like see what's up and out there, Ejaaz: maybe even a colony on a different planet. Ejaaz: It's interesting, as we have gone through this conversation, Ejaaz: I kind of think as Mars is like the first step to all of this.

Ejaaz: I remember when I was a kid growing up thinking like Mars was this like really, Ejaaz: really far off thing to happen. Definitely not in my lifetime. Ejaaz: And now it just seems like, you know, it'll happen and then we're on to the Ejaaz: next big kind of planetary jump. Ejaaz: Satellites getting out there, moving different types of payloads, Ejaaz: whether it's like telescopes that you mentioned earlier. I feel like it's all just phase one.

Ejaaz: I can't even imagine what comes next. But I know that there's only one company Ejaaz: that is doing this. It is SpaceX. Ejaaz: They cut the cost of space flight initially down to, what was the falcon 9 um Ejaaz: cost cutting josh do you do you remember this they cut it down to like a 12th Ejaaz: or like 126 it's it's one of those numbers.

Josh: It was some outrageously low number yeah of Josh: how how low it went relative to others there's also Josh: a video you just i'm going to send you that i would love to show Josh: because it's just um it's it's awesome to Josh: see the effect it has on other people Josh: like it's more than just a mission so one of the cool things is Josh: is the downstream effects of getting to mars means that we have Josh: unlocked a ton of new technology it means that we have um

Josh: we're able to create food and life on Josh: another planet which means we need to have a lot of forms of portable energy a Josh: lot better battery technology a lot better agricultural technology Josh: but also this video that we're showing on screen it's like what's inspiring Josh: the next generation to want to do cool badass stuff like it's Josh: it's so fun being able to sit down and watch these launches and Josh: and see like these kids just sitting down and like getting super expired

Josh: because for a long time when children when Josh: we're growing up like the thing they wanted to be was an astronaut that Josh: was the coolest thing and now the most popular answer is like oh i want to be Josh: a tiktoker i want to be an influencer and i really i mean personally i love Josh: the idea of people starting to get inspired by seeing things like this to want Josh: to do these ambitious things to build rockets to go to outer space to build

Josh: satellites to give us internet from the stars like it's just Josh: More than anything, it's an inspiring mission. And thankfully, Josh: they've managed to put an economic engine on it to continue to fund the progress Josh: that happens and to continue to work on this mission of getting payload to orbit. Ejaaz: Where do I buy this stock? Honestly, I know it's still a private company, Ejaaz: but I need to get my hands on this.

Ejaaz: Makes me very bullish, Elon, if I wasn't already bullish enough on all his other Ejaaz: companies, if I wasn't already clear about that on this show.

The Next Generation of Rocket Technology

Ejaaz: Josh, is there anything else that you need to share with us about this? Josh: Well, there's one more forward-looking thing that you actually mentioned this Josh: to me a little while ago, is that you're like, well, why can I not get to London in like 20 minutes? Josh: And this is very much that answer. It's like, if you are able to really just Josh: perfect the reusable rocket ship where you create this, an airplane, Josh: but for vertical takeoff and landing.

Josh: I mean, when we were watching the launch last night, that starship went across the world in an hour. Josh: Like it was on the complete other side of the planet in an hour.

Josh: So if you can create this technology and you can actually really refine it, Josh: produce it at scale, and you lower the cost to orbit down to $50 per kilogram, Josh: well, I would imagine the cost to low Earth orbit or sub orbit, Josh: which takes you up and then over and then into Europe, would probably be not that expensive. Josh: And you could basically get anywhere in the world in like 45 minutes or less. Ejaaz: So the funny part is, I think you could sell a lot of people on that.

Ejaaz: I think a lot of people will start talking about sex would be super. Ejaaz: But if I told my mom that, like, hey, you could go to Japan. Ejaaz: It's been a dream of hers to go to Japan in 20 minutes. She would be down. Josh: Yeah. So I think that's an important thing they want to leave people with is Josh: it's not only about getting to Mars. Josh: It's the second order effects that come from understanding the technology to Josh: get to Mars, where we can mass produce these rocket ships.

Josh: If we have all this new technology, it gets applied to a lot of really interesting Josh: industries, like the vertical takeoff landing rockets, where you and your mom Josh: can go to Japan for lunch and then come home before dinnertime. Josh: And like that's just an easy and normal thing so it leaves a Josh: a lot of, I think, optimism and excitement around for, for me.

Josh: And I think for a lot of people who watch all of these launches, Josh: it's just, it's awesome to see there's more coming each as we were talking yesterday. Josh: We got to go to Texas, go see one. Ejaaz: We're going to go. We are going to go. Josh: Let's do it. Cause that'd be a dream. These things are early next year. Ejaaz: We're going to have it in the background as Josh and I live stream our updates Ejaaz: about it. I cannot wait. I need to get myself a SpaceX hoodie as well.

Conclusion and Future Launches

Josh: Hell yeah. Yeah. We'll get matching hoodies and also Easter egg for anyone who's Josh: near texas um all there's a law in texas where all the beaches are public Josh: and starbase where they launch these starships the beach Josh: sits right next to the launch pad so you can Josh: actually go to the beach and be like less than a mile away from this gigantic Josh: rocket ship and really get a great view of it um and just see what it's like

Josh: up close so when we go that's exactly where we're going and i am i'm really Josh: looking forward to seeing one of these in person because my god what what an Josh: exciting thing that would be i can't wait well tom cruise of top Ejaaz: Gun step aside there is a new cowboy he's a Ejaaz: space cowboy in town elon is leading the way on Ejaaz: spacex um i cannot wait for the next couple Ejaaz: of launches it seems to me that like every new launch gets that much less complex

Ejaaz: but somehow way more powerful and somehow way more cheaper and i still i know Ejaaz: i keep talking about it somehow way more thinner um josh unless there's anything Ejaaz: else to say let's um let's round this up.

Josh: Let's wrap it up that's it so the next launch is going to be version three this Josh: was the last launch of version two architecture the whole new the new launch Josh: is brand new everything about the internals are going to be new all this new Josh: stuff is rolling out we will be here covering it all the way um but until then Josh: that's been an episode on spacex starship Josh: launch 9 launch 11 launch 11 i'm losing track yeah it's 11 thank you guys for

Josh: watching as always very much appreciated any final prompts before we go um Ejaaz: No but tell us if you enjoyed this space episode um josh and i i i consider Ejaaz: myself an amateur when it comes to these things josh is is super enthusiastic Ejaaz: and plugged in and i love learning from him but do you guys enjoy learning about Ejaaz: this stuff if not is there a different angle that we can cover are there other Ejaaz: space companies out there i already know the answer there is not.

Josh: Let us know let us know well thank you for watching we'll see you guys in the next one

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