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Elon Musk: Starship is achieving something that's physically barely possible. “We're pushing the limits of physics here. Starship is the first time that there is a design for a rocket where full and rapid reusability is actually possible. There's not even been a design before where it was possible....

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🚨ELON: “GETTING TO ORBIT IS 20X HARDER THAN YOU THINK” Elon laid out why getting into orbit is one of the hardest things humans do, and why most people (even smart ones) have no clue how brutally precise it has to be. Here’s the brutal truth: It’s not about going “up”, it’s about going sideways at 17,500 mph so you can fall around the Earth fast enough that you never hit it. Screw up the angle or speed by even a little? You burn up, fall out, or end up in deep space junkyard territory. The visuals on Joe Rogan’s YouTube episode show it all: Earth’s atmosphere is a paper-thin shell, and orbit is a razor-thin path you have to nail perfectly, every single time. And yet somehow, SpaceX is now doing this weekly like it’s just another Tuesday. It’s not magic, it’s physics, pain, and Elon’s obsession with blowing up rockets until they don’t. “We live on a planet where gravity is quite high, and if the gravity was even higher we’d be stuck on Earth forever. We certainly couldn’t use conventional rockets, you’d have to like, blow yourself off the surface with a nuclear bomb or something crazy. If gravity was lower, then getting to orbit would be easy. If this was a video game, it’s set to maximum difficulty, but not impossible.” Source: Podcast Visuals via YouTube, SpaceX, Elon Musk

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1,190,697 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk: Starship is the most complicated machine ever made by humans, by a long shot. Anything, really. There isn't a more complex machine... Any technical problem, even like a Hadron Collider or something like that, is an easier problem than this. And that full reusability is what will enable us to become a multi-planet civilization. And we haven't succeeded yet. Falcon is partially reusable, but the upper stage is not. Starship version 3, I think this design it can be fully reusable. And that full reusability is what will enable us to become a multi-planet civilization. Any technical problem, even like a Hadron Collider or something like that.
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Elon Musk: Starship is the most complicated machine ever made by humans, by a long shot. Anything, really. There isn't a more complex machine... Any technical problem, even like a Hadron Collider or something like that, is an easier problem than this. And that full reusability is what will enable us to become a multi-planet civilization. And we haven't succeeded yet. Falcon is partially reusable, but the upper stage is not. Starship version 3, I think this design it can be fully reusable. And that full reusability is what will enable us to become a multi-planet civilization. Any technical problem, even like a Hadron Collider or something like that.

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15,493 views • 6 months ago

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Here's Elon Musk back in 2010 announcing that SpaceX is going to try to build a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket. “The pivotal breakthrough that's necessary, that some company has to come up with to make life multiplanetary is a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket. This is a very difficult thing to do because we live on a planet where that is just barely possible. If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy. If it was a little higher, it would be impossible. Even for an expendable launch vehicle where you don't attempt any recovery, you get maybe 2% to 3% of your liftoff weight to orbit. Now you say, okay, let's make it reusable. Which means you've got to strengthen the stages, you've got to add a lot of weight, a lot of thermal protection, you've got to do a lot of things that add weight to that vehicle and still have a useful payload to orbit. Now, you're saying, of that meager 2% to 3% and maybe if you're really good, get it to 4%, you've got to add all that's necessary to bring the rocket stages back to the launchpad and be able to refly them and still have useful payloads to orbit. So, a very difficult thing. This has been attempted many times in the past and generally what's happened is when people have concluded that success was not one of the possible outcomes then the project's been abandoned. It's just a very tough engineering problem. It wasn't something that I thought I wasn't sure it could be solved, for a while, but then relatively recently, probably in the last 12 months or so, I've come to the conclusion that it can be solved. And I think SpaceX is going to try to do it. We could fail. I'm not saying we're certain of success here, but we're going to try to do it. We have a design that on paper, doing the calculations, doing the simulations, it does work. And now we need to make sure that those simulations and reality agree because generally when they don't, reality wins.” National Press Club, September 29, 2010

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14,920 views • 1 year ago

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ELON: STARSHIP IS THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED ROCKET BY FAR “Starship is the most complex and advanced rocket that's ever been made by an order of magnitude or something like that. It's really next-level. The fundamental optimization of Starship is minimizing cost per ton to orbit and ultimately cost per ton to the surface of Mars. This may seem like a mercantile objective, but it is actually the thing that needs to be optimized. There is a certain cost per ton to the surface of Mars where we can afford to establish a self-sustaining city, and then above that we cannot afford to do it. Right now you couldn't fly to Mars for a trillion dollars. No amount of money could get you a ticket to Mars. So, we need to get that to something that is actually possible at all.” Source: Interview with Lex Fridman, December 2021

Mario Nawfal

42,569 views • 1 year ago

Elon to Joe Rogan: “We deliberately ripped heat-shield tiles off Starship in the worst places, flew it back at 17,000 mph like a flaming skyscraper — 25× the speed of sound — and it STILL nailed a soft landing with holes burned clean through the steel.” Then he drops the real bomb: “Earth’s gravity is basically set to MAX difficulty. 10–20% higher and humanity would be trapped here forever. Starship is the first rocket ever designed where full reuse is actually possible. When we crack it next year, cost to orbit falls 100×–1000×.” 33 new Raptor 3 engines on the booster. Each one makes almost 10× the thrust of a 747 engine but looks like parts are missing because it’s THAT simplified. Hot-staging = the ship rips away while the booster is still blasting fire straight at it. SpaceX already launches ~90% of everything Earth sends to orbit this year… and Starship is just getting started. We’re watching the exact moment space travel stops being “rocket science” and becomes aviation. 10-minute clip below — sound on, prepare to have your mind blown twice in the first 60 seconds
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Elon to Joe Rogan: “We deliberately ripped heat-shield tiles off Starship in the worst places, flew it back at 17,000 mph like a flaming skyscraper — 25× the speed of sound — and it STILL nailed a soft landing with holes burned clean through the steel.” Then he drops the real bomb: “Earth’s gravity is basically set to MAX difficulty. 10–20% higher and humanity would be trapped here forever. Starship is the first rocket ever designed where full reuse is actually possible. When we crack it next year, cost to orbit falls 100×–1000×.” 33 new Raptor 3 engines on the booster. Each one makes almost 10× the thrust of a 747 engine but looks like parts are missing because it’s THAT simplified. Hot-staging = the ship rips away while the booster is still blasting fire straight at it. SpaceX already launches ~90% of everything Earth sends to orbit this year… and Starship is just getting started. We’re watching the exact moment space travel stops being “rocket science” and becomes aviation. 10-minute clip below — sound on, prepare to have your mind blown twice in the first 60 seconds

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982,637 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk perfectly explains why fully reusable orbital rockets are insanely hard to build Our Earth has quite strong gravity and thick atmosphere. With known physics, building a fully reusable orbital rocket is only barely possible "If this was a video game, the setting is 'Extreme Difficulty.' Not impossible, but extreme difficulty" Because the physics are so unforgiving, everything has to be perfect. You can't just have a "good" rocket You need: • Exceptionally efficient engines • An incredibly optimized, lightweight structure • Advanced avionics and software • A revolutionary, ultra-light heat shield for orbital reentry There is zero margin for error. This is why making life multi-planetary is the hardest engineering challenge in human history
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Elon Musk perfectly explains why fully reusable orbital rockets are insanely hard to build Our Earth has quite strong gravity and thick atmosphere. With known physics, building a fully reusable orbital rocket is only barely possible "If this was a video game, the setting is 'Extreme Difficulty.' Not impossible, but extreme difficulty" Because the physics are so unforgiving, everything has to be perfect. You can't just have a "good" rocket You need: • Exceptionally efficient engines • An incredibly optimized, lightweight structure • Advanced avionics and software • A revolutionary, ultra-light heat shield for orbital reentry There is zero margin for error. This is why making life multi-planetary is the hardest engineering challenge in human history

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953,935 views • 4 months ago

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The curtains are being pulled back Joe Rogan “Essentially DOGE has found the coffin where the vampire sleeps” Elon Musk “We're reprogramming the matrix. Success was never one of the possible outcomes — If you're in the matrix, success was never possible. The only way to achieve success is to reprogram the matrix such that success is one of the possible outcomes. That's what we're doing. We may or may not succeed.” Joe Rogan “Well, it's certainly a lot of fun to watch.”

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Elon on Starship: “It’s going to revolutionize space. Reusability is essential to make life multi-planetary and to ascend the Kardeshev scale; You gotta go a step beyond that and make it rapidly reusable. This is the first time there has ever been a rocket where that is possible. That is what makes Starship so profound. By (Starship) version 4, we’ll be 3x the thirst of the Saturn V rocket. We expect Starship to be flying more than once per hour down the road.”
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Elon on Starship: “It’s going to revolutionize space. Reusability is essential to make life multi-planetary and to ascend the Kardeshev scale; You gotta go a step beyond that and make it rapidly reusable. This is the first time there has ever been a rocket where that is possible. That is what makes Starship so profound. By (Starship) version 4, we’ll be 3x the thirst of the Saturn V rocket. We expect Starship to be flying more than once per hour down the road.”

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81,421 views • 2 months ago

ELON: WE WANT EARTH TO BE GREAT BUT WE ALSO NEED TO SAFEGUARD CONSCIOUSNESS “This is the first time in Earth's 4.5 billion year history that it's been possible to extend life or consciousness beyond Earth. And we've got to do that while civilization is still strong. That's the overarching goal of the company, is extending life sustainably to another planet and to do so ideally before World War III or some kind of bad thing. The key thing is that we need enough people and enough tonnage on Mars such that Mars can survive and continue consciousness even if something were to happen to Earth. Obviously, I'm not talking about abandoning Earth or anything like that. We want Earth to be as good as possible for as long as possible. But there are certain things that may be outside our control. So we want to just get Mars to be a self-sustaining civilization as quickly as possible.” Source: SpaceX Update, April 2024
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ELON: WE WANT EARTH TO BE GREAT BUT WE ALSO NEED TO SAFEGUARD CONSCIOUSNESS “This is the first time in Earth's 4.5 billion year history that it's been possible to extend life or consciousness beyond Earth. And we've got to do that while civilization is still strong. That's the overarching goal of the company, is extending life sustainably to another planet and to do so ideally before World War III or some kind of bad thing. The key thing is that we need enough people and enough tonnage on Mars such that Mars can survive and continue consciousness even if something were to happen to Earth. Obviously, I'm not talking about abandoning Earth or anything like that. We want Earth to be as good as possible for as long as possible. But there are certain things that may be outside our control. So we want to just get Mars to be a self-sustaining civilization as quickly as possible.” Source: SpaceX Update, April 2024

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71,649 views • 1 year ago

ELON MUSK: “It needs to be sustainably multi-planetary, so not just visiting, but actually multi-planetary in the sense that if you have planetary redundancy, so if there were to be a catastrophe on one of the planets, the other planet would survive. Starship is capable of doing that for the first time in history, and no AI was used to create it.”
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ELON MUSK: “It needs to be sustainably multi-planetary, so not just visiting, but actually multi-planetary in the sense that if you have planetary redundancy, so if there were to be a catastrophe on one of the planets, the other planet would survive. Starship is capable of doing that for the first time in history, and no AI was used to create it.”

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5,481,631 views • 8 months ago

ELON: MANY SAID REUSABILITY WAS DUMB AND IMPOSSIBLE “A lot of people said [reusability] couldn't be done. And then, there were a lot of people who said even if it could be done, it's a dumb idea, that it wouldn't pay off, that it wouldn't make sense. But we've shown that, in fact, it is absolutely the right idea. Reusability is the key to a great future in space. It's essential. We need reusability with rockets, just like we have reusability for cars, for airplanes, for bicycles, for horses. The fundamental invention that is necessary for humanity to become a multi-planet species is a Rapidly Reusable Reliable Rocket, or R.R.R.R.” Source: SpaceX Update, January 2024
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ELON: MANY SAID REUSABILITY WAS DUMB AND IMPOSSIBLE “A lot of people said [reusability] couldn't be done. And then, there were a lot of people who said even if it could be done, it's a dumb idea, that it wouldn't pay off, that it wouldn't make sense. But we've shown that, in fact, it is absolutely the right idea. Reusability is the key to a great future in space. It's essential. We need reusability with rockets, just like we have reusability for cars, for airplanes, for bicycles, for horses. The fundamental invention that is necessary for humanity to become a multi-planet species is a Rapidly Reusable Reliable Rocket, or R.R.R.R.” Source: SpaceX Update, January 2024

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19,787 views • 1 year ago