8/26/25 - Starship Launch (Take 3) with Adrian Dittmann

Starship flight 10 take three. Well, they do say third times a charm. So, let's see if that pans out for this situation as well. Um, yeah, should be quite nice.

Weather favorability. It says again 55%. We'll see. Yeah, I chose a uh I chose a time that is like uh 25 minutes in advance, assuming they haven't changed the time last I checked and I literally just woke up. So yeah, it crashed pretty hard. So yeah, we we we back, baby.

Um, in 10 minutes their live web pass. That's what they announced on the page 10 minutes ago. So, all right. Excellent. Speaking of weather, it's actually quite rainy down here at the moment. It's really it's really something, man.

Yeah, pretty nice. Brian, well, yeah, the the the moist the moist moist season is beginning again. Also, as I like to call the wet season, I like to call it the moist season. It's quite moist at the moment, but it's heading into the wetness part. So, yeah, another question that people need to ask yourself is like, why the [ __ ] does everything I interact with have so much to do with moisture? But hey, you know, that's how the universe works. So yeah.

>> Real >> proceeds to drink [ __ ] coffee like everything is so moisturizing. What the [ __ ]

We're all 70% water. Our the planet itself.

Yeah, but the air belongs to us. You know, it reminds me of the um is that the air force things? It's like you know the air is ours or the sky is ours or something like that. I I need to like learn I need to learn that slogan. It's it's it's pretty good. It's it's the same as the um you know we are your defense thing. You guys know the we are your defense clip.

>> Oh, right.

You know we are your defense.

I like that. Let me let me slip in the US is aim high, fly, fight, but the entire sky.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one that one is war and the other one is like where they have these recruitment videos where it's it's like you know they describe like how many percentages of the like earth are these things but like and then the sky is like it belongs all to us and something like that. It's I have that video around here somewhere. I should probably post it one day but oh well.

Um, where is my thing? I mean, my brain is still processing [ __ ] Where's the clip for that?

Found it. We are your defense. There you go.

Like my my the Timeless Martian account is literally a meme archive. It's like.

That's ours.

Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Like it very much. Someone's gonna get a get a get an affiliate badge soon actually. So that's going to be pretty cool. Uh, yeah.

Get affiliate for for what? Which organization?

Mine.

Oh, okay.

I just love saying that.

We are your defense.

Get as many representatives. Hm.

I'm so Noah joined the stage. Let's open this up.

Hey. Hey. Hey guys.

There's Isabelle. Welcome. Welcome.

Hi Isabelle.

Where is Andre?

Your your microphone is cooked.

Yeah, your mic sounds cooked right now. Or you're tired or something. a message to my other.

Yeah, we cannot hear like anything really.

Airpods. No, don't do AirPods. Don't do headphones. Just speaker.

Yes.

Second.

Goodness me.

Okay. Can you guys hear me now?

Is that a commission?

Yeah, we heard. Yes. But way loud.

Way better.

All right. So, uh, okay. Let's check some other stuff. As usual, if you got any, uh, [ __ ] I'll just make that post again. There you go. So, if like uh so I made that post real quick there so that people can see that cuz uh I want uh I want there to be you know videos taken. So, if anybody's down there at Starbase um taking videos or anywhere near Starbase and is able to take really awesome footage of the launch or perhaps somebody is near the Indian Ocean, whichever happens to be, not sure that you'll be anywhere close to where the rocket will uh come down, but I'm pretty sure that with lenses things can be achieved even though it would be quite quite quite difficult to do because you'd have to really go the the not sorry go edge along the uh at uh aerospace because you know restrictions right so.

Yep yep and then we can use them in a in an edit if anyone has some good ones he good.

Yes.

I'm asking my friend should be there.

These would have to be uh nice stabilized shots um because if they're not it's going to look really weird and not something that one can uh include in the edit needs to be of high quality, you know. Yep. So, feel like we could reiterate what we talked about yesterday, but it's like at this point I just want to see it launch.

Yes. Yes. It would be kind of I mean it would be kind of funny if it was like four, but you know, we'll see. We'll see what happens. I mean, what is the weather down there like right now? Let me just [ __ ] take a look.

Uh, all I know is 50 5% favorable. So, I guess that I'm assuming it's overcast or something like that with some clouds and.

Well, yeah, looks looks pretty looks pretty decent. Partially partly cloudy. Mostly cloudy, actually. Wind is 14 km an hour. M. It's not that bad. Light breeze. The humidity is cracked down there right now. Holy [ __ ] What's the humidity over here?

Didn't they change the name of Bokh Chica to like just Starbase or is it still called Bokh Chica?

Uh, well, that one's Starbase. Yes.

Let me search that again. For some reason, I thought you're starting this space in 20 minutes.

No, originally, I think.

No, no, I wasn't I wasn't going to do that. I was uh because like I wanted to pick a time that's like before they actually started the stream, which is scheduled for, you know, 55 minutes after the hour. So, I was like, "Yeah, [ __ ] it. We'll just make it 30 minutes after the hour, so we we can have like a a premine for 20 minutes, 25 minutes, and then like, you know, do do whatever." Right. That's right. We have a premine.

Yes.

Banana.

Okay. So, if we look at this right now, um.

29° there.

Air quality. Good. Okay.

Humidity 92.

I'm looking at H. That's weird. I'm looking at the current.

I'm looking at weather network. Not sure where you're looking at it.

We're loading the propellant. Take a look at what's going on here.

Um, stream starts in 30 seconds.

Wait. Let's see if they start it. Oh, wait. Yeah, they're live right now.

Yeah. 11 knots right now. They're doing 11 knots of wind. 11 to nine knots. Not that bad. Pretty pretty neat. Pretty neat. Not that Not that heavy. Not that heavy. Looks mostly looks mostly acceptable, I think.

T-minus 46 minutes.

Okay. So, we got a lot of time to fill.

Yes, indeed. Love to invite some people up or something.

Yep. Um, did you call out Drowsy?

No.

No. is probably going to be a bit busy, not going to lie, but we'll see what happens. You can message him.

I just want to I just want to see you do it. It's funny to me how much you mess him.

It's torture.

Functions.

I just want I just want to see you do it. I like how the moners are like wrapping around and stuff. Be cool.

Oh, those ones. I mean, the ones are used for monitoring the situation.

Yeah, those are epic. Epic looking monitors.

Here we go with the black tip on the rocket. Like black now.

Mhm.

I guess that's because of the new heat shielding or something like that. like you know, have you talked ever since? I like when they had the banana as their payload in the previous ones. That was kind of funny.

Yeah.

That was my favorite.

Okay. Um Oh, we got lure cat. Okay.

Oh no, he's surfing.

Yes.

He's too busy.

The booster at a higher angle of attack. That's probably another reason there's like added stress on it. They're going previous uh the malfunction. Cool looking plasma.

Okay.

A lot of gas down there.

Um, you're looking at the stream.

Yeah.

Are you sure that's Are you sure that's gas? I'm pretty sure that's just the cold air.

Plasma.

Is it? Gas should not be leaking out from that.

Yeah.

That is that's likely just the cold air. I mean Mhm. And if the gas were to come out, it would look like pretty different. Not discoloration wise, but like form-wise.

It would be all over the place.

I'll try to go over the details for people who are not following. So, um the booster um is plan um they're planning to um they're not we're not uh they're not going to use the uh catch tower today or uh um to avoid any kind of damage because uh the launch today is mainly to test um the ship and the booster and their well act and their u failure mode um.

Profiles different flight profiles.

Yeah. collect data from it. So, the booster is is planned, it's going to splash down in um the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, sorry.

Of America.

Yeah.

And then the ship um is going to uh splash down in the Indian Ocean.

Landing.

Yeah. And they're doing a hover test before landing. So, that's going to be kind of interesting to watch. See if they can actually hover it.

Yeah.

Yeah. Booster goes into Gulf of America. Booster goes into Gulf of America. Uh ship goes into the Indian Ocean. Excellent. And for the booster, uh this is going to be the first time they're going to test the failure mode where only three uh sorry, so usually they have three um Raptor engine on for landing and this time it's going to be only two to test the case where one of the engine um malfunctions basically.

Taking the middle one out. Yeah.

Yeah. And for the ship, they're testing different tiles. So, heat shield tiles. Um, there is a passive.

Uh passive shielding. What are they made of, Adrian? Ceramic. And.

Yes.

The the the one the black ones. Yeah, they're made out of ceramic.

So.

A special type of ceramics like a.

Yeah. So those they're going to test the different geometry and also the edge and uh and they're going to collect data and compare it to the other um type of shielding which is going to be active heat shielding.

Um.

I think it's active cooling is that the metallic one is it?

Yes. What they have a metallic one too? Yeah.

And how do they cool it? Do they what do they use for that? Gas they use the propellant.

Gas. So oxygen, liquid oxygen and midane.

Right. Use it.

And then.

That makes sense.

If you actually zoom in on their ship, you're going to see a lot of missing tiles.

That's also done on purpose because they want to.

Uh collect data for the uncovered part of the ship. This is mainly like testing really bad case scenarios.

Mhm. Yeah. So, we're going to see uh we're going to see some spectacles likely. That's that's a thing. Um so.

That is all within spec, so to say. So, if there's like.

I wonder if the booster is going to start spinning out, it would make sense, but I guess that's not going to happen. So, we'll see.

Yep. And the last thing, the upper stage is going to deploy eight Starlink simulators. That's their payload in space and perform the inspace Raptor engine relight.

Yeah. So, this is the first time that um um they're going to have a payload on a Starship. Usually.

Um usually it was empty.

Deploying a payload.

Deploying. Yeah, exactly.

They've had payloads before. Yeah.

Deploying. Yeah. Deploying the payload.

They had a banana.

That was their payload. Um.

It used to they used it for like a gravity indicator like when it was floating.

They were Yeah. The the the other times they were testing the door, right?

Yeah.

And now they have.

The door jammed last time.

Yeah.

And this time around they're going to have uh these props, Starlink props. Basically, they have the same mass, weight, and all that. and just the hardware for them to be um deployed, but nothing valuable. I think it's um because the real uh Starling satellites are expensive to make and they can't risk it in a mission like this. They're between 750,000 and a million each. So, all eight of them are um just props, functional props. And again, they're going to collect the data. And if that works today, it's going to be a pretty big deal because it's going to confirm that Starship can be used to deploy like bigger bigger payloads of satellites because the existing um the Falcon can only release 60 no between 29 and 60 satellites at a time and Starship has the potential to release like 180 to 200 at a time.

Damn. I didn't know that.

So, basically, if that works, um the price uh the cost for uh uh deploying like satellites is going to be 10 time five to 10 time cheaper.

Really? So, they would just only use Starship, you think, deploy them after that or Yeah. Okay.

Interesting. Right now, Elon's just like speaking on the on the stage there. It's a previous recording of him because he did that yesterday.

Oh.

Right. Technical briefing.

Yeah.

What is it with me and my obsession with cats recently? I don't know what it is. Like just cat memes. I I don't understand this.

Cats are amazing. We love cats.

Cats are incredible.

I never moved from cats ever.

You know, I I heard one of your good friends is a cat. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Cat.

Got mod cats in here.

Yeah, we've got a mod cat in our Discord.

That's true. Yeah, this is true. It's got spiky hair. Um but he's flattened out recently. [Laughter] You can.

Yeah, we was like literally in the Discord yesterday going like, "Yeah, I'm a cat. I'm a real big cat." It's true, you know. Cuz like if you think about cats, like if you if you have cats and the cat looks at you, it actually thinks that you're a cat, too.

Yeah, it does.

Yeah.

And if you're quite cat-like in some way, then yes, you you are. It'll accept you as more of a cat. It just thinks that you're really big weird cat. Like, but it still sees you. That's why a cat's like so happy when it sees you like come back from wherever you've been at because it it in its mind. It's like.

Whatever you do out there is like hunting effectively. it it processes that as hunting. It's like, oh, it goes out to grind, so to speak, but like it's hunting, right? And there's no guarantee of returning. That's how it processes the event. And you come back and like it just sees you as a really weird hunter that brings back weird types of sustenance that it then transforms into stuff that the cat can eat. Like that's its that's its weird like perception of you. It's like, wow, this is a really weird cat, but it's feeding me, so we're good, right? It's like.

Yeah.

Imagine how weird it must be for the cat. You go out like for 8 hours, come back and just got a bunch of stuff on you the whole time and like so it's really excited obviously and then you know you you make it food. So it's like h.

Mine guard my truck when I get home. It's like this is his property. We must we must go. He like sits on the roof. It's kind of funny.

Yeah. I love when they do that.

It's always funny cuz like you can tell if there's like cats in the neighborhood. They sometimes always walk over my car. Like I don't know why they walk over my car. It makes no sense to me. I don't even know what that cat is. But like I come out in the morning, cat paws on my window. It's like, "Oh, okay. Cute.

You're accepted by the cats.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I have very little problems with them. I do have a problem when they [ __ ] in the garden. I'm like, "That is pretty ass, but like me."

It's like, is there anything around that's going to like mess with that? So, we're we're good.

Usually bury it. That's not that big of a deal.

Yeah. or figure out it's or figure out the origin location and put it back. Just kidding. Um, don't do that. I'm I'm too petty. That's That's And I also choose not to live in a neighborhood with like lots of people unless they're quite distant. So, yeah. Don't don't don't take what I say about neighborly relations and apply that. It's not a good idea. It's not going to work out so well.

Really.

I live in a I live in a wilderness, so rules are a little different. just a little bit. We handle things a little bit differently here. Like if there are relations at all, like you hardly go over to your neighbor's house and then if you do, it's like probably cuz like there's some sort of there's some sort of landesque thing going on. Like you have some land related stuff or some people related stuff. Like for instance, you're trying to figure out if somebody tried to steal something or like you're going there because you're you you're like employed by them or you have one of theirs employed. It's usually a thing like that or you want to like strike some sort of deal with them, you know, like cuz because there's like lots of villages here, right? And if you wanted to like operate on their like land, then you have to like kind of strike a deal with them. And so going there and talking to them directly is like what you do. And so it's like, yeah, you hardly ever interact with those people. And then what do you do? It's like sometimes a year or so. And like there's the time gap of about a year or two. You check in occasionally and you do things. Yeah. I usually bring them like food. That's the first thing I do is like bring them food and like their local drink. They really appreciate that. And then we have like a discussion, a respectful discussion. I you you can't be like a podcaster bro and go to TSMC and go like hey I want $7 trillion worth of like you know chips right that's not going to fly you know you got to be like realistic in your expectations making a troll on sama here cuz that's actually what he [ __ ] did like Samma went to like TSMC and said hey I would like this much like he just wants to say hey $7 trillion in like [ __ ] chips it's like what are you talking about like what what did I mean look I know your upper limit is like supposedly compute but like this your your architecture is ass. No, I I I I I don't even want to begin to break down why that just doesn't make any sense. Like I just so many vectors and clearly you don't know what the [ __ ] you're talking about cuz you don't work in hardware. It's like not not only like where are you going to put them uh but not not only where the [ __ ] are you going to get the money from? Um because your your product doesn't even generate anywhere close to that amount of money and you you assume that AGI is going to be real. So it's like okay so I guess you think all the money is going to be worthless which clearly is the vibe that you're approaching this with. So what the [ __ ] Huh? I I don't understand. So so so your bargaining chip is no bargaining chip. Then when you do go there let's assume that that's just not a thing that deprecates. Okay. Let's just assume that in a world which is you know where the cat is is a cube or or a sphere. We're going to like assume that that's like that your your your bargaining chip your bargaining chip that's unrealistic is real. Okay, let's assume that. And then we go over there and we go, okay, uh where are you going to put all those chips? First of all, it's a lot of chips, right? Um and then on top of that, where are you going to get the energy? On top of that, where are you going to get the workforce to even do that? And on top of that, how are you going to do that within the next like four years? Because because you're not gonna, first of all, it's just not going to happen. And and who's going to like who's going to make them? TSMC has the ability to make them, but they're probably going to take 4 to 5 years to make them. It's going to take you approximately 4 to 5 years to install all of them. It's probably going to also take you uh if you want to like do that at the same time a whole bunch of years to try and get the power, which by the way, most of the infrastructure is not suited for. You're going to need to basically create your new uh new nuclear power plants. At which point you have to like kind of understand to yourself like understand for yourself again like imagine if you're in the US and you want to build up massive amounts of of of this then you will need more power that doesn't exist and you probably want a nuclear power plant at some point because it's the best thing.

Yeah. Uh, and and if you don't have that, which you're not going to, then you're kind of [ __ ] Which is also why the US needs to get back into nuclear power, fision, and fusion, and needs to strike a deal with the [ __ ] Chinese instead of pissing them off more so that they can give you the goddamn fast reactors cuz you got a lot of waste in your ground. You may want to make use of that waste. And you can. A fast reactor allows you to take the nuclear waste and make use of it. Again, that's a thing, by the way. Like if if people like there's an interesting thing that like always confuses me and that is that a history is not is is not um is not clarified. History is not clarified. It's not that history needs to be modified. It needs to be clarified because the problem is we used to believe that nuclear waste is an actual problem.

It's not right. It used to be a problem. Yes, it definitely was. That's why we have like so we have salt mines full of tons of this stuff that is radiating away over the next like you know millions of years. Right. That is a problem. Right. The thing is today we have a solution for this. Today we can take that same waste and use it again via fast reactor. So So now we don't have a problem actually. So now literally like all of that stuff it took us insane amounts to like mine this right. And so now we're just like remmining it effectively except with no effort other than just logistical how the [ __ ] do I take radiation stuff and put it in somewhere where radiation stuff doesn't like radiate to other places and then take that radiation stuff and put it inside the reactor again. So it's like that that's that's your only effort there which ironically enough is going to cost you less than mining it I think. I mean it depends depends you know but still pretty good. Isn't that awesome? I I think that's awesome. I think that's really [ __ ] awesome. Like this is a really cool time. Like damn. But still, you know, you probably want to get get to doing that. If you want to have like, you know, the world's biggest brain and tons of chips, you probably want a better power source and like fuel and all that is not going to be it. I'm sorry. It's not like I I know that these things are great and they are really good at propelling forward last like but you know it's not going to be the play. Just saying.

Showing the tower catcher.

Explaining what they need to do on it.

Right. Will they not um Well, they're not going to catch him this time, are they?

No, not this time. No.

I don't even know if we should make an edit, I'm pretty sure.

But yeah, no chopstick catch today. Uh, because.

They'll be risking the they'll be risking it. um they might risk um destroying the site and it's it would cost like at least 200 million to rebuild it plus like a year and it would delay all the other missions.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

They won't.

It's kind of funny um if you think about it that I was yesterday I was eating with chopsticks but we had no chopsticks.

Oh yeah. For those you didn't know, I have a Discord server and I was like live on the live in the Discord server yesterday and I was eating like these these Korean noodles like with chopsticks on camera just cuz I thought it was funny. And I think everybody else kind of enjoyed that a little bit too.

Yeah. Next time they do a chopstick catch, you got to eat some noodles that day.

I'm going to do actually do sushi because we got to like pick up a series of tubes.

Pick up a series of tubes. That'll be fun.

Like, you know, like that like that guy says, you know, the internet is a series of tubes. And now it's like technically the rocket is also a series of tubes and I can pick them up.

Yeah.

My chopsticks. Yoink.

Uh, unfortunately, duty calls. I'm going to have to drop off, but I'll catch you guys later.

All right. Later, man. No problem, man. See you around. Have a good Have a good day.

Have a good day.

See you around. Bye.

Bye. Hi. It sounds like the flight went well. Or is what's going on?

Sounds celebratoryish.

The flight The flight has not has not gone well yet. You were just tuning in to the beginning.

Did you just wake up?

I fell asleep at some point. I was like, I was going to take a nap and then I woke up and it was later than I expected. I was just holding on to wife and I was like, "Oh, apparently she arrived at some point." I remember her arriving and then I fell back asleep and then I was cozy and then I woke up. So, what' I miss?

Nothing.

Discussing.

What did I miss earlier?

I think I fell asleep too.

Just don't worry about it. Is there still a planned fight or did they like.

It's still going on account of the fact that the space ah no that's not accurate on account of the fact that the space the base will always keep going but like no there there is they're still on track as.

24 minutes.

As in tus 24 minutes or t minus - 24 minutes.

Just t.

No It's still teammate.

24 minutes and 30 something seconds.

Yeah.

Don't worry, dude. Don't worry, dude. Relax. Relax.

Well, I mean, like, you know how sometimes they're like, "We're going to launch at 20 minutes." They're like, "Scot."

Well, they do hold at 40 seconds a lot of the time, so that's probably going to happen. But I I don't know. I have a good feeling. Hopefully.

Yay. I have good hopes for this one because they're not catching this one, right? They're just like launching it and then gone.

Yeah. Basically, what they're going to be doing is well, you missed that part. Um, what they're going to be doing is they're going to splash down both of them. Um, as for the booster, they're going to bring that down the Gulf of America. Um, they're going to bring it down with two thrusters instead of three. Uh, just to kind of test whether or not this could work in a failure scenario, right? And with the Starship, which is going to be landing in the Indian Ocean, they're going to try a little bit of a hover thing just to see if that works and then let that splash down and then I guess retrieve it at some point.

No. So, they're trying to figure out how to [ __ ] up the most gracefully. Correct.

Yeah, exactly.

Uh, how to gracefully No, how to gracefully unfuck the [ __ ] up. Basically, that's that that would be more accurate of representation.

Got to get failure data like you know.

It's like, hey, what if what if one of our Raptor engines fails? What? What? What do you know? Like imagine you're going to buy a record.

What do a 4chan post? Yo, this this happened. This both bad. What do.

Yeah.

I love 4chan post. They're so good. There's such high compression of data. It's it's amazing.

There like I start put I start like one of the things is I start speaking in X posts but also occasionally do the [ __ ] 4chan thing and it confuses the [ __ ] out of everybody. I like the what do expression. I use that all the time.

Yeah. It's like what do I like give that to people sometimes like okay so this is messed up. What do.

They're like wait what like huh? What do you mean? I don't think that sign off will ever leave me. It's like always what do whenever something happens I'm like uh what do save me for a chance save me yes you are right I should put my hard drive in the microwave good idea thanks team.

Yeah basically by the way.

Dude I ate so much I ate so much yesterday that I have like literally zero hunger right now. It's crazy.

It was like three big meals.

I skip.

I had like four steaks. I had like four steaks. Uh 10 uh 10th uh what is that? Like two cups of ice cream. Okay. Four steaks. Two cups of ice cream. Well, kind of three and a half steaks actually, because the other basically four. Yeah. Um, and then like a a a one liter tub of Korean noodles.

Yummy.

And soup.

Look good. It's like faux noodle.

I I didn't even anticipate to eat that. And I was like, my robe was starting to like, you know, not fit properly anymore cuz I like eating so much.

So, I was sitting there doing the whole thing. Man, I am so full. Like I'm going to send this meme. He hates so much his robe doesn't fit. I don't even know what amount of food that would require for me. At least four live chick, four chickens. Four whole chickens. That'd be the minimum requirement.

Guys, you know what's funny? Isabelle is uh speaker. She's in a plane right now. She might see something. She might be in our best video.

No, look at the meme I sent to you on accident.

I don't understand. That's like I know it's funny. Like I know why it's funny. It's because they can only eat a certain amount of salami. You know.

The cats only can eat a certain amount of salami, but they can. And look at those pupils. They're dialed in, bro. Holy [ __ ] Like, that's max.

They really want that.

And so, sometimes people, they say salami differently. They just say slammy.

[ __ ] I'm going to post it.

It's so good. I don't know what's I don't I don't know what it is with me and these [ __ ] cat memes that look at the [ __ ]

I'm a bee. Why are the like.

Oh, wow. Can I That's.

Cat's going to have a little salami.

That's [ __ ]

He looks enjoying it.

Yeah. [Music]

Oh, yeah. This is so good. You said just like Y.

Here we go again.

Yeah, dude. I know. Yeah. YOLO said that. Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's a It's a common thing. It happens quite a lot. Don't worry about it. And comments. They're saying, "Abuse the rocket until it releases the PEZ. has a dispenser. Okay.

Oh my god, that cat is so cute.

It is. Yeah. I like when cats eat food, they have like this particular aura of don't [ __ ] with me or I will completely destroy you type of thing, you know?

Yeah.

Which is why they also make those like sounds which is hilarious if it's a kitten.

Yeah, I know.

Where's that the wee wee meme comes from? Like we we like have you ever seen a k a little kitten just go complete goblet mode over some tuna? It's so cute. They just shake like that when they're eating. It's like so violent. It's like this tiny little [ __ ] thing. And then when you pick them up like like I've dealt with some really young ones and when you pick them up their belly is just completely full like expensive belly.

You just pull like boop. I don't know what it is.

They tend to stop doing that when they get older, but when they're young, holy [ __ ] They will fill up their bellies until it's like so noticeable.

I know. I know. Especially with milk too, right? Like in the beginning, like if you if you ever have like the kitten's that young, that's usually what it is. Like if I wanted to.

If I want to hyper evolutionize a cat, as I like to call it, then what I do is I just take the kitten that looks the most aesthetic, take that one, and just like feed them to the max and make sure that they like do all the things that they need to do in order to become the best cat, so to speak, right? and then just like release them back out there into the wild and then see see what they do. It's like so again like my my ris my my uh position on nature is I just kind of accelerated forward in some ways. So it's like hm you can't prevent the cats from like fighting each other so why don't you like bet on the strong ones? So it's like what if you take the cats that you want to have survive and just make them stronger and so then they end up like being on top anyways. Ah, so do that.

And so you have the small [ __ ] kittens. So you give them like milk and then their belly just expands so much it's just like it's like a sphere man. This is how we wind up with Australian wild cats.

Yes.

Ooh, that looks cool.

Also, why the [ __ ] does everything we introduced to Australia just get [ __ ] huge? What's up with that?

Does that apply to humans? actual question.

I don't think so.

A little bit.

Look, a little bit like if you start exercising, you will become bigger. Even if you've like reached your limit for growth, you will become bigger.

Yeah, but it's not like how we introduced rabbits to Australia and then they got like 20 times the [ __ ] size or cats, which are like five times their normal [ __ ] size out there. Like, we introduce [ __ ] to Australia and it just gets [ __ ] huge.

Interesting tech. Interesting. Have.

You ever seen those Australian rabbits? They're massive.

Oh, I've never seen them.

They are. It's true. They've also brought some to New Zealand and they were a huge [ __ ] problem.

Yeah, us humans and bringing [ __ ] places. We're good at that.

Yeah, it's a massive problem.

Hey, North America, have some small pox. What? I mean that one was uh North and South America. That one was pretty much intentional. South America especially like that's how they defeated the Inca. They actually gave them like blankets.

Right.

That had the had the virus in them and they gave it to him so that they could infect them and therefore weaken their forces and take him out which honestly like they fought the Inca on like every level. I'm not sure even if that was intentional or unintentional but they completely mogged that civilization. Like.

Again I ask like okay you you were so capable of creating all of this like amazingly super advanced architecture which would have you have quite a considerable amount of understanding when it comes to engineering yet your weapons were like I throw a rock the [ __ ] I'm sorry what so anyways you know that aside that that whole thing aside that was that was that was their thing um their ultimate weapon so like you know for for the for the Um, for the Spanish, their ultimate weapon is my viruses and big kegs of gunpowder that I can make blow up. And the Mayan's ultimate weapon was here, take this meth addict. Literally, I'm not kidding. They had this thing where some of the warriors that they kind of like sent out there almost like suicide bombers, what they did was they like gave them they put them on every drug that they had that would enhance their phys their their physical like everything, right? They put him on every [ __ ] drug and then just sent him over the wall.

Damn.

And of course, you know, the Spaniards be waiting there and just [ __ ] turn him into a fine red miss with their cannons. So.

Yeah, it turns out filling a guy with coffee and co cocaine doesn't really make him that formidable.

Just kind of makes him feel like he is.

I know.

That's basically what they did. So yeah, that was that was the that was the Mayan's ultimate weapon there.

Copy that. Like oh my god.

Yes. Yeah. I can take on the world.

Shoot.

Say hello to my friend.

No. No, he cannot. He seemed like he thought he could, but uh we have guns.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Turns out they still work.

That's kind of like where the.

That's kind of like where the uh the origin of like this this this origin of white supremacists like that that whole notion the concept actually came out of like you know [ __ ] Africa cuz like you they see these people they come there that look like aliens. the same thing that you know happened to the Mayans. They bring with them all this like weird [ __ ] technology like the weapons like boom sticks you know can you imagine how weird it must be for a [ __ ] prairie man out of like Africa to see for the first time this weird [ __ ] stick and they like here's here's this big animal that we take 5 hours to take down cuz they're persistence hunters and that's how it's done and we spear them to slowly like you know make them die and then you have this [ __ ] gun that just takes them out in like one to two shots.

Yeah. Bro, you got to [ __ ] look at that and go, "What the hell is this?" What sorcery is that? Big stick go boom. What the [ __ ]

Yeah. Really?

He pointed the magical stick at my friend and then my friend is dead.

I'm going to run away now.

Or something.

Exactly. Same thing same thing with like the buildings as well. It's like, "Hey, they they somehow figured out how to liquefy stone and turn that into like walls and [ __ ] What the fuck?" Oh, and they somehow figured out to take water out of the river and redirect it through the pipe thing to like end up inside of their house. And they can turn it on and off when they want to. And they have this amazing thing which is like they can take light and make it appear in the evening, but only when they want to. What the [ __ ] They didn't like.

That was pretty much like the whole thing. Oh, yeah. No, you did. I didn't have light.

They introduced it later. They introduced it later. This is like this is more like uh.

20th century.

I think it was introduced by the.

Even even bulbs. Even Even even if you didn't Yeah. Even even with the bulbs, you didn't need that. They had like other means to create uh electrical light at the time. You know the I think there was one with graphite where you're effectively just like shortcircuiting it kind of.

Just like normal light bulbs get super hot.

No.

Yeah. That's how that's how light incandescent light bulbs work. It's just putting electric current through a copper filament. You can use other filaments.

Well, yeah, that one. Yes. Yeah. Sorry. I was confused with LEDs for a second. I was like, which which one do you mean?

Yeah. Well, then there's also the ones that use gas, but that's more.

Yeah, that's a whole different thing.

Like we have like what, three, four different means of like illumination.

Yeah. Something like that.

Well.

Yeah.

More like six, seven. We have a lot of bioluminescent ones, but those don't really count. So like glow sticks.

Yeah, bioluminescence. Like.

It's not even bioluminescence. That's chemical luminescence.

And there is bioluminescence.

Kind of like a one time thing.

Cuz we do capture fireflies cuz [ __ ] them.

Yeah, but can you turn them on and off though?

You have enough of them. It doesn't matter. They always do it. They can't stop. They see the other one. They're like, "Ah, I got to respond." Cuz they're bugs. They're not super smart. It turns out.

Yes. Problem is you can only like turn them on and keep them on. That's the only that's the problem with the fireflies. So you have like you're going to commit a lot of bug genocide.

That's true. When you smash them, they do stay on. That's at least for a couple minutes.

Yeah, that's the problem. So it's not a really good light source, is it?

Same thing with your [ __ ] glow sticks, which is chemical luminescence, right? Where it's like, oh, it works for like 5 minutes.

5 10 minutes, 15 maybe. Hey. Yeah.

Some some glow sticks are pretty good.

Depends on the depends on the volume, the material.

You got 15 of peak light and then like 8 hours of lightish and then another 16 hours of I think it's lit up and then after that it's done.

Yeah.

What is this picture? Look at this. Yeah, it's a bunch of Optima.

It's like a bunch of It's like a bunch of Optima robots on the [ __ ] like.

There's a bunch of Optimus robots on a steel beam. Just like that photo out of New York, you know, when the the steel workers were constructing the buildings.

What the [ __ ] World.

Exactly.

I don't know what kind of steel you're using, but that is hella thick. What the [ __ ]

What is that? I mean, I get that they want to like save material, which is why they have like the holes in the center there, right? But I mean, that is I appreciate the enthusiasm, but that is quite something. If you assume that the average calf is approximately five like 10 10 15 cm thick, that's like 5 cm of steel. What the [ __ ] are they playing? For reference, the current construction like you know they use what maybe close to that but it's larger. It's like way larger. It's like you you're going to use that build skyscrapers, man. Like damn, you know? Like even the one that like even the the the stuff that I use right here, it's like [ __ ] 1 cm thick like beam steel beam. Babe, you can't [ __ ] that up. This is really hard. You put like a whole bunch of stories on top of that. You'd be good. No. Oh my goodness.

They're saying they're going to build more launch pads. Oh, that's good.

I have like just a tiny amount of steak left over. It's like a third of the steak. I like these renderings. They look really nice. That looks unreal engine as [ __ ]

Yeah, something weird about the that that is like, yeah, that is Unreal Engine. I don't know what they were using prior to that, but that [ __ ] that [ __ ] was like, what I just saw that was Unreal Engine 100%. God, Ben. Wonder if they've used Imagine to try to make some [ __ ].

No, no, no. Absolutely impossible. I can recognize the way that the the reflection come off the waves. It's like also the fact that the waves are a little too large because they they over the the coastline is just incorrectly rendered. But that's fine. Those are just those are just like physics nerd stuff. Pretty cool though because the visual looks really, really neat.

They're saying everything's looking good so far. So things are green. It looks like it's five minutes. All systems go, so to speak. Getting close to it. Very nice. Very, very nice. I love this cat so much. I just saw the Jesus piece was trending and I was very upset to discover that that was a rap group that broke up and not a Jesus themed One Piece parody. Damn, that that's wicked, man. That that's wicked, bro.

That's wild. Yeah. By the way, everybody, uh, quote post the space with join the Starship Lounge. I'm going to call it that cuz I think it's funny and throws people off. So, be like, "Hey, what is that?" So, uh, yeah. So, when does the big ship go zoom zoom boom boom?

4 minutes. Dank. No, 4 minutes. My bad. 20. It was 420. I asked just the right.

He's just stretching like crazy. And I am speaking of which, I should probably do more pull-ups on this [ __ ] um on the [ __ ] big steel beam. You know, a problem is the moment the moment I do that, like my aiming in video games just goes to [ __ ] for some reason. I don't know why. It's weird.

Oh, yeah. My fingers are all like messed up. I don't know why that is.

I think so. Well, you see the two sensitive areas. I was watching how you hold your mice your mouse the other day. If you do anything to the side of your thumb or little finger, it's going to throw everything off cuz you're like me. You use those to anchor your positioning.

It's true. And if your nerves get messed up from like any kind of physical labor or anything, it just [ __ ] that up. It does the same thing with guitar playing. Yeah, like you said you had something about going on the other day with all the guitar.

Ironically enough, you can't actually exercise your hands if you want to do that at the same time, right? I don't think you can. You just got to really adjust it. Interesting. My one time I burnt the outside of my little finger on my right hand for my mouse. So instead of like leaving my whole finger down, I would pivot to using just the tip, like I'd curl up my entire finger and then just pivot around the pinky the fingertip of it because I could still feel that unlike the rest of my finger.

Interesting. I could still feel it, but it wasn't the same. You know, didn't have the same response. But that may have been something I picked up for guitar, too. Because depending on what I'm doing, sometimes my hands free position and other times I have my pinky like up on the my bridge pickup like on the top right edge of that to keep my fingers anchored in place so I can scoop my picking around wherever I need it to go and not lose track of which string I'm going for. String skipping. If I'm doing string skipping, that's something I'll do just so I have a more finite point of reference.

Big boy. That's a cool [ __ ] shot right there. Look at that.

Yeah, bro. One minute. Yep. Should be epic. I love for like the uh broadcast they have comments turned off.

Well, they didn't hold at 40. So, we're going straight through. Looks like 35. Yep. Going to be doing it. Let's go. 30 seconds. Let's go. Take us the rest of the way.

Here we go. I'm checking out X, so there's a long delay. So, I'm a little bit behind.

As am I. Come on. Come on. Let's go.

So, it's 16. It's about 15 seconds behind. Same. Nice. Light is proper. Nice. Nice. Nice. Looking good. Looking good. Looks very clean so far.

Yeah, dude. That's beautiful. I don't see any tiles coming off or anything.

Yeah. Yeah. Looks phenomenal. Yeah. Beautiful. It's a beautiful day as well. Like the weather looks excellent. Look at that shot of the uh Yeah, that's the the raptors.

What do you call it when uh it's all funneled together? Uh, that is a uh that is known as a mock diamond or a shock diamond. So like they're perfectly synced. Normally this is what you see when uh an engine is properly optimized like just one. It happens for each and every single one of them. But because of the way that they basically are able to have these engines work together in sync, you can actually see this happen for all of them at the same time where it's like you don't see any one of the engines have like the mock diamond individually as much, but like it's heavily pronounced for all of them together. What is that? I don't know. That looks cool though. Whatever that is. Were you talking about hit it hitting the high or higher levels of the atmosphere?

Yeah, let's hit max Q maximum diamond max stress on the vehicle and after that.

Looks interesting. We're having [Music] splash down in the Gulf. As we mentioned earlier, the hot stage will be jettisoned for this flight and that should occur just after the boost back burn. Uh, so we're about to shut down the first stage and perform hot staging. So let's just watch and listen.

Damn, that looks good. That looks really solid.

Yeah, no hiccups or anything. It's interesting. The angle looks a little different this time around. Uh, that looks like a that looks like a propellant leak to be honest.

Oh [ __ ] Oh no. Yeah, that is that is probably a propellant.

See the engine start to throttle down. So they must know. Maybe this is like one of the heat shields. It's moving quick. Ship ignition.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It worked. Nice. Separation. Nice. It looked like a leak, but no, I guess not. Separation confirmed. We've got six engines running on ship. Booster is doing its boost back burn. Continuing now towards its flash down sight.

We have seen all ship. I wonder if they're still doing like high angle of attack cuz last time they did that with the booster. You heard them report ship chamber pressure is nominal. So that chamber pressure just that expected thrust level in those Raptor engines on the ship. Three vacuum optimized three C level. Nice.

There's a view into the business end from the ship. Is that the relight? They're doing. Oh, no. That was something else. At this point, we finished our boost back burn. So, that was shut down. So, that's the the first of the two burns after a launch that the booster is going to do today. So, now it's headed towards the Gulf. It's not going to be quite as an aggressive of a flight down. We relax that angle of attack a little bit, but we are then going to be looking for it to do its engine tests for the landing burn. And those are going to be a little unique this time.

Yeah. Typically, we start with all 13 center inner engines lit for that landing burn and bring that down to just the center three. Uh, but one of our test objectives for today is to simulate what an engine out situation would look like. So, we're going to be intentionally turning off one of those center three and instead lighting one of the engines from the middle 10 ring.

Yeah, we did see one of those engines in the middle ring shut down during the initial asset. Oh, looks like we have hot stage jettison. You can see it floating away there. Oh, they were doing the booster. Interesting.

They did that for. See one of those middle engines shut down during the ascent. Again, we are resilient to engine out on Super Heavy. That's why we're able to get through our ascent. Starship flying on the expected path. There's still a chance that engine could be back in the mix for the very start of the landing burn. So, we'll see if we light up all 13. But we've I mean we've even done a landing burn at the tower with an engine out. So very resilient. We'll see how it does on its way down to the Gulf though.

Right. So we got a couple of minutes. That landing burn start should be uh just about 40 seconds away. That's always rad to see the The boost is dropping. Boost cloom itself in the background as it was coming in.

That's beautiful, man. Yeah. Right. About 20 seconds to landing burn. Do a landing burn chamber. Pressure is nominal. Here comes.

All right, here we go. Start. Looks like we got 12 of those 13. Down to three, including one of the middle ring.

Damn, look at it. It's hovering. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is awesome. That is [ __ ] awesome. I didn't know they were going to do that on the booster. That is so [ __ ] awesome. Landing shut down. Oh yeah. Wow. Damn. That is so [ __ ] cool. Amazing. That is so [ __ ] cool. Oh my god. That is so cool. Fight for booster today. Keeping it in a balance up there. That's amazing.

Meanwhile, back in space. Man. I was hoping to see some really confused whales or something. Ship continuing its ass burn.

Oh no, you do not want to have that. 9 minutes north, right? That chip engine cutoff is slated for 8 minutes and 57 seconds. We are going to see those three ARVAC, the Raptor vacuum engines. Those are the bigger circles in that little indicator on the bottom right of your screen. Those will shut down first and we continue burning for a couple seconds longer on those inner three. That's beautiful. Before we hit SECO.

Second engine cut off. That was beautiful, man. That was beautiful. Perfection. I hope that somebody caught that on camera. I really hope that somebody caught that on camera like the. Thanks to Starlink for getting us these views. It's just incredible. And we just heard the sound from booster. It's like we just we just got a a late boom from the booster.

Hell, it's Chase. Bro. Yeah, we have ship engine cutoff coming up here just shortly. And as we mentioned, today's flight test is not an orbital flight, but rather one that demonstrates Starship's orbital capability. Starship in terminal guidance. Hasn't made it all the way to space. It's only 140 km of this burn.

So, it can still boom. Under 30 seconds to go. It happens. It's just a funny sounding boom at that altitude as it travels a little bit different through the air than it does when you're about 100 kilometers closer. Yeah. All right, shut down the vacuum engines. Ship engine cut off. We shut down the center three. Successful ship engine cut off. Seco, baby. Here we go. That's what we want.

Nominal orbit insertion. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We just heard the call out for nominal orbital insertion. Nice. I like when the camera's like. It's one of my favorite words. Nominal orbital insertion.

All right. So, ship is sentences. It's just so good. I don't know why. There we go. We're seeing the flash to move to a stowed position. That's why it looks like your camera's moving. Yeah, exciting to see Starship safely in space and super pumped to see all the team's hard work in action here today. And of course, as guaranteed, it's been an exciting day so far. We successfully lifted off right on time at 6:30 p.m. Central time. Uh, thankfully, our weather was looking good today. Um, yeah, and and booster we had our soft splash down in in the Gulf. So ship continues on.

Yeah. Ship able to complete its asscent burn all the way in. You can see some of the shadows start to creep as it's going to be eventually flying into an orbital nighttime. So we'll see some daylight start to go away. Uh, but ship is burn. I mean, that's just the beginning. Now, we've got a whole bunch more to go. So, we've got some exciting demonstrations planned while we're on orbit. That right there, we just saved the FTS, the flight termination system. That's that automatic flight safety system we have on the vehicle. So, that is now turned off while ship starts its coast period. We are coming up. Our next milestone is going to be the deployment of those Starlink simulators. We've got some payload inside of Starship that we're hoping to deploy into space for the very first time. That deploy is supposed to start at about 18 minutes.

This will be your Starlink satellite simulation. Just about 7 minutes from now. Uh, that deploy will take place over a couple of minutes. It'll it'll go about one satellite a minute. Um, so we'll be spread out over that. It might get a little dark, but a couple of views that we can show you to see that deploy in action. After that, we're also looking to do a relight of a single Raptor engine while we are in space. We've done this before.

They reinforced it. This is not necessary to do as we are in a suborbital trajectory. But this is essentially a chance to test out what we need to be able to do. I think what's coming off the ship is doing that a little bit later in the flight. Probably not looking to get that light show and more importantly get that really critical data. I mean, if you look at the night in 5 minutes we'll be having again running those experiments with the tiles. We're going to be doing missing tiles, metallic tiles and also intentionally loading those vehicles flaps. Um, hopefully we'll also see a splash down in the Indian Ocean today.

Yeah, we were able to get to a re-entry last time, but we didn't have full attitude control, so we weren't able to go in control that attitude. Were designed to end up losing contact with the ship before we could make it all the way. The attitude was you spin me right around really fast. You're not really getting the data that we want to make sure we're kind of stress testing the vehicle. As Amanda just said, we removed a bunch of tiles and we do this in some intentionally scary places on the vehicle because we're really looking are there spots that were vulnerable to this.

Yeah. So that just looks like ice. If you look at the outside of that looks like ice to then do re-entries a little bit later on. So really really critical to get that data. Really looking forward to a controlled re-entry.

Yeah, for sure. As we always say, our main payload is data. Uh, but today we also have some actual payload on board and those simulators that Starship will be deploying. Um, we'll see coming up here in just a few minutes. These are dummy satellites that are about the same size as our V3 Starlinks. Uh, we have eight in the Starship PEZ dispenser and expect to deploy at a rate of about one per minute. As Dan mentioned earlier, uh, Starlink is critical in all of our flights on Starship to get our main payload data, as we always say. And in fact, it's Starlink that's currently providing these views you see as Starship cruises a couple hundred kilometers above our home planet and provides real-time telemetry through every phase of flight.

Yeah, we took a peek inside of the Starship payload bay there for a second. So, there's eight of them. They're they kind of look just big steel plates essentially. They're roughly the same size as those V3 satellites. Um, when we do get that view inside of the payload bay, the the payload door will kind of be on your right. Um, and we'll start to see them go out like a PEZ dispenser. Um, yeah, here's a look inside. So, those are down there in the center. They're kind of two steps on either side.

Those are full of PEZ. Is that what he's saying? To their right. Yeah, basically the PEZ is a is a fake Sterling sat. So I want you to like Yeah, it's it's basically a giant PES satellite. It's candy. Yeah. Instead of candy this time, it's a satellite, but it's not even a satellite. It's a thing that looks like that's look that looks is shaped like a satellite. The pressure instead. It's made of candy, right?

Basically too high for the actuator of the door to open. That's why we weren't able to get the door open that time. Um, we have not seen anything like that on this flight. Everything's looking good with our fuel tank uh and our fuel press system. So, we are hopefully just a couple of minutes away from seeing that payload door open and getting to our first ever payload. It's not the first payload we've ever carried, but it's the first one we're going to try and shoot off into space.

That looks cool. I don't know what's happening in there, but it's kind of like it's charging up for an attack. All right, so. Oh, yeah. By the way, that that stuff that you see there, that's like moisture and air, like all that stuff. You actually could you will likely see density a little bit of residual gas and. We opened the door once I want to say it was back on flight three uh when we were able to make it up into space. You'll kind of see that gas into the vacuum of space over um after we've already vented it down.

So kind of a cool light show. Um, and then we'll get ready to deploy those payloads out. There's actually a time where there was a bit of gas that was still left inside of the like there was when the um that when that door opened up and you could see the density for like change. So it was this really cool lensing effect that you saw, you know, where like the the light was warped. That was so [ __ ] epic.

And as we mentioned, so we have crossed over now at this point into an orbital nighttime. So views from the outside will get pretty dark. Um, but we'll see what we can see. We do this we do this by design. We've been launching these uh later in the day here in Texas to try and get daytime views when we splash down. So, it's daytime over in the Indian Ocean where we are currently headed. Neat.

Just a few seconds until we expect those payload doors to. Just got to semi circumn the Earth real quick. BRB.

All right, one more time. BRB guys. Just got to go to the other side of the world. Don't worry about it. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Get that [ __ ] out of there. [ __ ] them rocket inards and all that gas. Looking all Dragon Ball Z charging up your attack kind of. Open up that door. Get it all out of there.

So, we are currently in payload deploy prep. And the door is open. The door is open.

All right. So, the payload door is open. We should see the first satellite start to deploy at about t + 18 minutes and 27 seconds. So, should be only about 30 seconds. So, one step closer. How listen this time. He cooperated. He opened the payload door for us.

There's a view kind of behind the PEZ. You're looking out into the vacuum of space. About 15 seconds until payload deploy. Chip has transition to payload deploy. How can you tell?

Math. I think it just jettisoned its thingies. No. Nope. It It did not blow its load. Yeah, it was just buffering things. It didn't blow its load. What the deep cut? Deep cut. What else is the spaceship going to do? It's clearly going to blow its load.

Yeah. Well, not blow a little. Oh, yeah. It's It's releasing it. It's releasing it. Yep. Yep. One one is coming out. One's coming out. One's coming out. Uh, it seems kind of stuck. Is it being pushed out all the way? Wait too long to do that. There we go.

Okay, it's pushing it out. It's pushing it off. There goes another one. Yeah. All right. It's working. Nice. It worked. It worked. Excellent. Look at that. Look at that. Big deal. Look at that. It's [ __ ] Yay. Tiny moment. Yes, you can hear the energy of both Hawthorne and Starbase. Everyone's super excited for finally getting to deploy some of those simulated satellites.

That was beautiful. And down, bro. There we go. As we said, we're going to do about one every minute or so. And this is this is just kind of a dress rehearsal for when we're going to do be deploying the V3 satellites. And these are just a a massive massive increase to Starlink's capability. Each one of them has it's 60 terabits per second of capacity that's going to get added to the network per launch. That's 20 times more than what we're adding with every single Falcon 9 launch today, which you know, step increase in capability. There goes another one. This is the most applause I've ever heard for literally.

It's scientific literal, but it is still literally. All right. So, as we said, we've got eight total that we're going to go through today. It's about a minute for each one, but good on deploy. [Applause] It is fun to watch it just eat them into space. Get out of here. [Music] dude. They're they're heating them out. This is epic.

Yeah. So, eventually you're probably going to see that the entire like length of the shaft here is going to be filled full of like these Starlink satellites and they're going to be able to deploy way more than like 24 each. That's beautiful. Take a while to deploy them all. Excuse me.

All right. So, we're about halfway through when we actually start launching the V3 Starlinks on on Starship. We're going to be flying about 60 each time. So, it'll be about. Damn, 60 each time. It's just going to be increase. 60 60s per launch. That is up like what are they doing? They're doing current like 24. [Applause] And for us. That's like two and a half that's like that's like roughly about two and a half launches. Yeah, absolutely. Always getting us that data.

Actually, a little bit more than half, but yeah, that's like two and a half like rocket launches. Amazing views we have on the vehicle today. But like as one rocket. Yeah, views brought like. We discussed yesterday. It's like deploying Starlink simulator. This is pretty good. 60 60 man. 60. That's crazy. How deep does it go? All right, another one firing out. Let's do some research while I was watching the stream. That is looking smooth today.

Yeah. It's going well. It's nice one. H wonder if they have somebody controlling it or if the whole thing is just automated. I would assume automated because. Yeah, I would assume automated, but maybe since it's like a test. They deployed them a little low to avoid them becoming like space debris. Yeah, you got one remaining. So, seven of the eight have been deployed, one more to go.

Does that mean they will fall ever? So, it's temporary trajectory, they're going to. But if they are deploying a little higher. Obviously. The last one has been deployed. Basically got to make sure that these things which is effectively space junk actually burns up so that it doesn't end up being junk in space which is what can cause. I'm not sure how many people are familiar with the Kesler syndrome. Does anybody know what that is?

Nope. It's like this uh this chain reaction of [ __ ] up events where what happens is you'll have so much like space junk that you can't actually go anywhere and then eventually like what ends up happening is that if one like part of that space junk collides with a bunch of other stuff in space then that whole thing will then create a whole bunch of more space junk to the point where there will be so much junk in space then literally all the space infrastructure will be pelted by the junk that just keeps getting created as this stuff. It's like a whole chain reaction. Just imagine like just imagine nuclear fision but with infrastructure in space and like that the infrastructure is being pulled apart into like very small little chunks and then that is just like you know kind of orbiting all around the earth destroying [ __ ] everything. So yeah, we just want to avoid that as much as possible.

Eventually form a ring. Uh, like Saturn and all them other things due to the centrifugal force, the rotation of the gravitational pole. Like that seems like a basic calculation that would prevent that from happening. If at all if at all it would happen if at all it would happen in an unacceptably large time frame.

We get about 120 megabits per second that's split between our high definition video and realtime telemetry. We get that every phase of flight including re-entry. So it's not just giving us views of re-entry, but we're getting all of that engineering data in real time through phases that it used to be impossible to get that in real time. So just really incredible.

Yeah, Starlink affords us all this capability. And reminder, it's the world's largest satellite constellations. What he just said wasn't accurate, but okay. Low latency broadband. This provides internet access. Because it's not a matter of whether or not you can get it. It's a matter of data pipeline. Connectivity before. It was possible to get that but they were prioritizing other data. Territories and other markets with over 6 million active customers and counting to meet the growing global demand for highspeeded internet SpaceX expanded its fact. So why the [ __ ] didn't you say that?

And also introduce. Probably because it's very technical and not actually information that most people would parse the way people who have dealt with network code would. Say we couldn't get it before. Towards the Indian Ocean. Sorry, I'm. Technically we couldn't get it because we had more important information again.

So the video is a luxury like followed by atmospheric entry hell of a light show. So basically what you're saying is we now have more pipelines open and before we couldn't get it because we only had a single pipeline and that single pipeline is not reserved for the luxury of viewing what the [ __ ] is going on but actually being able to know what is going on via data. Yes.

Pretty much. Yes. The [ __ ] Why couldn't they just say that? This sounds really [ __ ] easy. I don't notice that. Well, it took him like 1 second to say his thing and it took like 30 seconds for us to get through our spiel. So, it makes sense.

True. True. But then again, you're going to have like, you know, 5 minutes of music. So. That's true. I mean, they are comment they are literally just sports commentators, but for the for the starship, right? Like, all of those people actually have a history being like sports commentators. At least most of them do, right? So, like if you're going to commentate, you may as well, I guess.

Yeah. Then again, they are doing a a better job at this than like we are when it comes to like the data part because they have access to more data than we do. So we just like kind of go tangentially off the thing. So like while music is happening for instance, we're just like having this discussion like a very meta commentary. It's like okay, you get Adrian Edman meta commentary. Adrian and VR meta commentary as like the the starship is floating around up there and you get to view the inside of like the empty starship right now after deployment. I like the fact that it put a light bulb there and like a bunch of other lights so you can actually see what's going on.

That's nice. Oh, you're just like your brother, aren't you? You've seen this headset for an approximately 4 seconds. Damn it. It's a It took his Mjolnir's brother like 4 seconds to decide. Oh, headset cable. I want this. I want this so much. It's like his [ __ ] brother. They both will just not leave this cable alone. Something about the braiding drives them wild. What are those tanks? Do you guys Do you see those like black tanks that are on the left side of the rocket? There's like a sets of three. There are two of those sets and they look like tanks for something. Actually, no, sorry. There are sets of three and there are four of those sets. See, cuz it's like they're not that long. So, do you see like, you know, on the on the left on the on the left side, right? They're separated by like this this uh insulated tube looking stuff that seems to be connecting to the base of the ship.

Are those tanks or are those arms? Like. Those look like tanks. I mean, look, they're round. What I'm talking about, you you understand what I'm talking about, right? Like those talking about. Yeah. It could also be a pneumatic lift cuz those are also round. Yes. That's what I meant by arms like. Sorry. I don't know if those are like. Be but. Things that they use for like separating cargo in there. I don't know what the inside of that region's like. That's the.

Was that in there before? Is that new? I have no idea. I honestly haven't watched. I think last time when we saw the banana I think last time when we saw the banana that wasn't like in there, was it? I don't I don't. It's interesting to see how the starship is. It's interesting to see how the starship is like reinforced from the inside. Look at that. Do you see like the the pieces of metal, the stripes?

Mhm. It's really neat. Could be nitrogen gas or something like that. Yeah. For for what purpose? Liquid oxygen.

Hang on. Let me figure this [ __ ] out. I don't know, bro. [Music] [Music] Okay, let me just figure this out. [Music] For a second there, I thought they were about to start playing like funk music, which would have been really bass to be honest. Yep. Yep. [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] That looks pretty neat though. What is this current shot of?

That is the bottom where the dispenser is resting. Oh, and this current shot right now. Yeah, this this this shot right now is the outside. And I think that is the flap. Looks flappy. I don't know. Darkness nighttime looks cool. Now we're just like hearing electric music. So that's that's really it.

Yep. Altitude 166. If I was the director, I would be totally putting in the soundtrack from 2001 of Space Odyssey. Yes. Yeah, dude. Have a little No, not not just that, but like have a little uh you know, they did have that. They did have that before, you know. They did use some classical music before, which I think gave it a gave it an extra flavor. Remember last time they like used jazz music for like the first time they did the coasting, right? They had the jazz music which is so [ __ ] good. Space music. Everybody was talking about that. That was really beautiful. They should bring that back, man. Gives them character, you know.

Oh, or the cantina music from uh Star Wars. Nah, too cheesy. Too cheesy. Funny, but a little too cheesy. Have that on tap in case it blows up for some reason. Bro. Hey, it brings up it it's a mood fixer, you know? It's like. People would be so confused like what what just happened. Exactly. Imagine like you're a journalist and you're trying to like write a spin on this and that's like the first thing. It's like this like what do you what do you do at that point? You just sit there go what is this planned explosion? It it feels like a planned explosion.

Yeah. And then you know you mitigate the bad person. Looks like plasma, doesn't it? There it is. Yep, that's plasma. Looks like it. See, they're hitting uh they're hitting a few pockets right now. It seems the altitude is low enough, is it not? They're getting hit by the Aurora Borealis. Nah, that is a thing. I think it's solar wind, right? That's because that that's what that phenomena is called. Royalis, but this here is not it. No, that is just that is just the rocket hitting the pockets really really [ __ ] hard and the air as a result heating up to a point of a plasma cuz there is that much.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is moving pretty quick. So when it hits that pocket, then basically you get the get that point. So yeah, we're getting closer to where the atmosphere is now at I guess. Yeah, that pocket's going friction. Yeah, it's just kind of like up there. There's a little bit of there's like a little bit of gas and then just a starship comes in. It's basically violently intersecting the air. It stabs you real hard.

Yeah. At probably like I don't know the 26,000 kilometers per hour. Is that six or an eight? 6,500. That's the current speed here. Of what? So, it's basically Sonic booming its way through every air multiple times over. They're expecting the relight. So, they're doing that relight.

Look at that. You can start seeing the plasma. Of a single raptor that should be coming up just a little under. And you're going to see the relight happening soon. The repositioning is definitely adding. Levels in the middle there. Not a de-orbit burn. It's a demonstration of what we'll have to do for de-orbit burns.

Right. That explains it. Done this once before. This deorbit orbital missions. It's a pretty critical test. We are just a couple seconds away. Wow. Wow. Notification sound. Sorry, we're about 20 seconds away. So, we got a little bit more time. So, we are going to see one of those Raptor engines. [Music] Through the deorbit demo gate. So, we should be seeing it momentarily. The engines are moving a little bit. Oh, there we go. Shut down.

Oo. Nice. It looks like it was successfully. Yeah. All right. Looks like we confirmed the relight of one of those center engines. Second time we've done that. Super exciting. Huge congrats to the team on this milestone. It was fun watching the other. Engines go, "Oh, fuck." And move out of the way. So again, that's going to be really critical for when we're doing. No one wants to blow. Let's get the [ __ ] out of the way. I love how he's demonstrating this with a [ __ ] lighter.

Those [ __ ] starship come back down to Earth. So really cool to see one of those engines again uh in space. Our last in space thing. Very exciting. We're going to be heading back um for re-entry at about t plus 45 minutes. So, we're going to take another quick break and we will see you soon.

Six more minutes until the re-entry. Okay, so they're taking a break. That's amazing. And see, here is where I would put in the intermission music for Monty Python. Why not? You know, I do I do like the uh professional tone. I do like the professional tone though. It's pretty good. Like I there there's some humor one could add in for sure, but like the professional tone is quite neat for this one, I would say.

It's doing quite well. Well, you've worked with you know exactly how professional my tone gets at peak professionalism. Yes. It comes out in very small bursts at best. Yes. That's why you keep That's why like when we do a consultation like your mic is muted most of the time and you come in with like these bangers. Oh, hello. Did you think of this? No. Okay. And then just like goes back and it's like gone for like 10 minutes and it's like talking talking nugget for like 30 seconds and then the like oh interesting. Person readjusts their positioning, does like the 10-minute cycle, and you just come in with the nuggets each time. And I'm just trying to like get more data out of them so that you can start working with that. It's a pretty good dynamic.

Yeah. Like I do the interrogation thing, Vera does the analysis like, "Hey, we're going to give you like this thing." And then Lawyer Cat does the PR stuff basically, which kind of like helps me cuz sometimes I just really really want to troll so hard when I hear something that I really know is unrealistic and it's like I have to just shut up because I I know I have to know better, you know? I can feel it. I can I can feel I'm just like ah he's holding himself back. Something fierce.

Yes. Yes. Nothing personal to the like nothing personal to the people or anything. It's just, you know, like some of sometimes you get things about like we get asked about AI stuff and it's like, oh boy, AI stuff specifically where it's like, you know, just about rappers and such where it's like, I mean, look, you don't have to sell us on the rapper idea. You have to sell your people on that. We could build you the infrastructure at best, but we don't care about the rapper. We just I mean, we don't care about the AI. We already know what the AI can do. We care about like how exactly you want to turn that into something. So it's like if you want to create a wrapper, we can help you with that, but we can't guarantee you the functions of the AI. Actually, we're going to tell you that here's the problems with this specific system that you're going to be using in the house. We're going to run into that. And then when we get like feedback that tries to defend the AI, then I'm just like, okay, I need to shut up now before the trolling comes out.

And that's when Synthetica comes in. He's really good at that. Yeah. Yeah. He's really nice, professional about it. Honestly, like puts me to shame, dude. I will say. He's he's our professional element. Yes. Yes. Yes. Like if you if you with us, you'll get the realism, but if like we're too realism, you know. We're blunt realism. Yes. It's kind of how we operate. I can be professional, but my professional is like a wise man wants you when to not say anything. So, it's like that would be Oh, hey, Andre is here. I just noticed that like checked the space cuz it was like [ __ ] and the one day I had a call I could have missed the rocket Starship launches successfully. The door opens you got the Starlink deployment.

Huh? Did you? I'm pretty sure. I just had a call. A call work. Oh, that call. Okay. That's what I was like, wait, did you? Yeah. This is super [ __ ] cool. Indeed. It is. By the way, it's kind of crazy when it shows the payload door. It's kind of you I mean, they shows the payload area from the camera inside. You can fit a Tesla Semi in there and it'll still have a lot of space. The Tesla Semi is what, six, seven meters in length. So, two more meters around it. 630 6 m 30 cm. So, two and a half more meters around it. That's a massive payload.

Yeah. They did say somewhere it's it can be 180 uh satellites fit in there. What was the number the last set? 60. On Starship. Really? Yeah. It was two and a half times what they were currently doing, which was 24, which is 60. Yeah. Yeah. But these satellites are massive. That's why it's like each. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why that's why I was saying Tesla semi in terms of like not like vertically, but like horizontally. It'll just sit there on the like the same way the satellites were flat. Tesla semi will sit there and will still have space in front and behind it.

That's impressive. Looks like we got re-entry activity with the flaps. Yeah, flipless. Cool. The PL. By the way. Yeah, that the the hardware looks so clean on this one. Yes. Yeah. Look at the um what I what I found was really interesting is look at the reinforcement. Do you see that right there where the flap is attached? There's something there. Exactly where it burned. Yep. Where it burned last time. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't that wasn't there before. Like even you look at the reinforcement, it kind of branches out like a radially. Also, they seem to be holding quite well. Like look at the plasma right there. Dude, that is [ __ ] good.

Awesome. That's what I mean. Like compared to the previously ones, this feels like a generation up. You know, it's the same one. Second generation like this was remarkable. Oh, tiles falling apart. It might have been. It's the same. That's the same thing that happened like with uh started re-entry. It might have been planned cuz they had a few that were loose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're trying like a few places as well. We're about to start barreling through the Earth's atmosphere and head for a splash. that uh flap here looks. Plan to recover the spacecraft today. But if we do make it all the way down to the water, who knows? But the goal of this part of the flight is to learn as much as we can about the ship's heat shield. A fully reusable, rapidly reusable heat shield for spacecraft has never been done before. It's one of kind of the hardest engineering challenges still out there for us. And so this is a time to really dig in and get that data.

Yeah, absolutely. And re-entry is a critical phase of flight. So we'll need information on how the ship's system end up performing. And Starlink will also help us gather as much data as possible, which is. By the way, Andrew, did you did you catch the hover? Starink provides us with. No, I did not. I'll look up the SpaceX video that I saw. What about it? Well, it was basically, wasn't it, wasn't it just like um that they were doing this with two engines instead instead of three, wasn't it? Yeah, two engines. So, two engines says instead of three. And they just it was just hovering there like the the booster cuz like they splashed it down in the Gulf. And so, they just let it hover there for like a good 3 4 seconds and then let it splash. It was real [ __ ] cool looking. It was so awesome.

I clipped it. I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, usually they do two cuz three. Oh, look at that. All that all the uh debris there. Woo. That's a That's a That's a blow. Something just blew up. Hold up. But what was there? Attitude. What's the attitude look like? Still looks It's getting out of control now. I It looks fine for now. The ship as we go through this. So, it is not down to the Indian Ocean. We've removed a bunch of tiles and kind of critical places across the vehicle. So, seeing stuff like that is still valuable to us. We are trying to kind of push this vehicle to the limits to learn what its limits are as we design our next version of Starship. So, 47 minutes 45 seconds into the.

Flight. Excitement ticking up a little bit on re-entry already. Uh, but the light show is continuing. Um, this re-entry uh is going to take about 20 minutes or so uh until our planned splashdown. We were trying to splash down about 1 hour and 6 minutes into the flight.

It's almost like they're aiming for a 69 minute video. Obviously no runways to help us out. So we are doing propulsive landing instead of more traditional.

Am I wrong? And propulsive landing enables us to have more rapid reusability with these vehicles.

I don't know. We're going to splash down at 1 hour and 6 minutes. About three three minutes of wrap-up commentary, I'm guessing. And they're down in that. That's cool.

All right. So, at this point, the flaps have control. That means we're getting into a dense enough part of the atmosphere that the flaps can start controlling us. We're not only relying on those kind of reaction control system thrusters.

We're going to continue hearing some call outs as the ship makes its way back to Earth. So, when we hear entry max heating and entry max Q, that will mean the ship has made it through the maximum heating and aerodynamic loads it will experience as it returns. So, if it makes it through those, uh, you can say we're doing pretty well.

I will say I'm happy re-entry cleaned off this camera for us. It was a little dirty from the weather, so view as we start coming down. cracking.

Yeah, this is beautiful. Um, it looks like the skirt's lining pop. I get two different pieces of metal, but there's nothing. Yeah, nothing there.

We were intentionally removing them only at the skirt is that, you know, that explains it. Yeah. So, they were they left off they left left off a few tiles at the skirt. That's why it ruptured like together that obviously exposes your engines. different.

It looks like the layer of the metal popped based on the pictures before and after minutes since launch.

See what is that start to build up a little bit. We are at the point where it's evaporating enough atmosphere that the flaps have control like the cooling about 74 km.

Oh, dude. Look at the heat. Look at that heat, man. So, we intentionally protect from daylight. Sun should actually come up over the horizon starship in about 3 minutes.

It's kind of interesting. So, like if when the when the starship comes down and they have the metal, right? Like, how does one how does one assure that the metal is actually still, you know, usable, properly usable because the stresses will change a little bit because you're heating it and then letting it cool off again. And that flap is getting torched. Look at that.

Yeah, it's Oh, look at that. It's melting, dude. Look at that. Did you see? Look at that. Looking directly at the flaps. Not just I mean this is this is not like what's supposed to happen, but like it still looks pretty damn interesting.

Yeah, but it's better than that other time the flap noted and it still survives through. Oh yeah, that was impressive. Yeah. We're We're trying to We're kind of being I mean, it's still it's still it's still attached, right? It's still attached.

Right there. Yeah. You got to be a little over. It looks like there's an inner inner part of the skirt that ripped. We're really trying to see what are our limits.

That's probably the one. It's still hanging around. It's just a little floppy. It's fine. Yeah, it's still good. It's still good. That's probably the part that's uncovered. Funny that I was yesterday talking about floppiness that one can't control. Synchronicities are hitting again. to give it a couple more flops, guys.

Yeah, the real flops were prego. The plate was going too perfect. Everything had done. So, they needed some kind of like things to mess up a bit to know where to fix next. Yeah, really exciting.

Oh, wow. Look at that. What the [ __ ]. I think they strategically detached some of the pieces so they'd be able to collect more relevant information. Yes, that they did. Yeah, the uncovered drone got damaged most likely. I don't think they would survive.

We're about 10 minutes until we're probably going to start hearing some of the other big milestones coming up. Yep. In about 10 minutes, like Dan said, Starship will be transic. Uh this is going to be the period of flight where the velocities of air flow and past the vehicle are concurrently below at and above the speed of sound. So several Does that mean the spaceship is going to turn into Sonic the Hedgehog?

I mean, it's kind of doing that right now, not going to lie. Look at the the Earth. Look at the Earth. So, that's 480. I don't think that's the Earth. That is just the plasma. 930. You can see the movement, the clouds or whatever. Oh [ __ ] that is the Earth. Yeah, it's [ __ ] cool. Morning. What am I saying? It's day in Australia. True. Down. There we go. There's that sunlight.

Damn, bro. That is a picture right there, man. One of the other things we're doing during this and you're going to see Starship kind of pitch in some pretty not extreme ways um but a little ext [Laughter] [Applause] just just in this structure hold up we are I mean we are pushing it beyond essentially what we think we'll have to fly at to do something like a return.

Oh, dude, look at the reflection of the flap there. It looks so epic. May not be a very smooth ride down. I am amazed by the camera. There's literally no damage to the camera and it feels like it's right on the edge of the flat cuz it moves down below. A look at those clouds, man. That is that is a [ __ ] that is a money shot.

Transonic and then subsonic. Once we hit sub sonic, we're basically just belly flopping. It's actually amazing to see how long it's holding out. I'll hold my tongue on that one. I know. I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. I'm thinking it, too. Okay. Don't know. That is a money shot right there. Mhm. [Laughter] Oh boy. Chaos agents at work, eh? Pretty much. Mhm.

Damn, look at that. Some be beautiful weather down there. I should know. Could he close by it? All right, so about 55 and a half minutes in. You can see the sun is up. Again, we intentionally designed these flights to lift off in the evening here so we get these daylight views so we can get as good a video as possible on the ship, assuming we make it all the way down. Got at least one buoy powered by Starlink that's out there in the landing zone in the Indian Ocean. Hopefully giving us a view. Again, if you see any live views uh not from the ship itself, that means we nailed our landing target. ship is past peak heating.

All right, we just heard the call out that we're past peak heating. So things are looking good so far. Looking good. It kind of looks like it's still heading right again. The flaps are controlled. So this movement you're seeing is that forward flap uh moving to try and just maintain maintain control, maintain attitude of the of the vehicle as we're coming down. checking in on one of our flaps. All four of the flaps. Two in the front, two in the back.

Dude, look at how it's glowing there, man. Crazy. as we're we're amazing. Obviously don't have a camera that can see the entire heat shield. Uh that's these give us kind of the best that we can do. Um but looking at those flaps is really those are just you know super critical for controlling the ship.

Dude, if they actually make it all the way down properly then cuz the attitude controls looking pretty good right now. So as you're as you're coming in you can see you can see in that indicia, right? Not after. It's the Indian Ocean, right? That depends on which rotation you're coming from. That corner looks like we got a little bit of burn. What is me? The very bottom part of it. Everything's still looking good. Maintaining control.

Wait, I'm just sending you one of the dumbest jokes I've ever written. I know. I know. That's what I was like. I was like, what? What the What did they mean by this? [Laughter] Dude, look at the flap, man. Look at how that's how that's actually just like molten. Like, wow. That looks I mean, it looks cool. Let's just say that. It does look It does look pretty cool. I think it's coming off. Chunks of it are coming off. Yeah, but I think it was coming off. But man, does it look cool? A little bit toasty on the skirt. Toasty is the word. Yeah. Yeah. How would you describe this piece of metal? Toasty. Yeah. Or in my case, critical. So now we're Man, look at how look at look at how that's like I think parts of it are stuck to the ship now too. Look at that. About 48 49 counting down to 48 km in altitude. Expecting that transic. So transitioning between this is like the first time we're seeing the plasma like this with the daytime clouds behind it. Beautiful. Such a beautiful shot. Look at that. Lot of forward momentum, a lot of forward velocity. And then eventually by the time we hit subsonic, right, here we go. So this is what we've been talking about where we are.

That is so much deceleration. Try to fully deploy those a flaps and really stress them out. So again, this is meant to test the extremes for the vehicle. Oh yeah, they're they're testing something. Oh, well that was a cool camera transition. That's Yeah, that's toasted right there. Look, burnt burnt, dude. Swim. All right, they're just wiggling it. They're literally wiggling the ship. Swinging out again. We are through the ringer on this flight. Put it through the wiggle maneuver. Two tiles down. Wiggle. Wiggling intensifies. Yes, wiggling intensifies. It's like we're still maintaining control. Man, this flap is perfect. It is. It is. Look at that. It's pristine almost, man. When you get your [ __ ] Yeah. Heat treated AK. Flaps earning their paycheck today. Definitely things looking good so far. We're about 2 minutes out now from Starship becoming transic. One thing to note as we get some of those views length of the ship. One of the changes to flight six was to No, it's not. uh changed the timing a little bit. So we had kind of scaled back the number of tiles significantly is when we go to catch these ships, you don't want to I think as Zeon said, you don't want to shuck the the ship as you catch it and knock all those tiles off. So we knew we were going to have to kind of peel back that layer a little bit. And the first time we did it was on flight six and we saw kind of wrinkling and dimples almost in the ship as we were creating these hot spots in the uneven parts of the heat shield. And so we tried that on flight six and uh kind of addressed that. We smoothed it out. That's why you've got that nice smooth out black line. Now remember looking at it, we can see kind of a little bit of hot spot, a little bit of warping almost near the payload. You can see a little bit of colored patina up above it, but we don't see those kind of deep uh almost, you know, they almost look like gouges on that. So, it looks like that's that's been pretty successful. So, all right, we are less than a minute away from from hitting transic again. Pretty soon our our kind of our forward velocity is going to look like it's kind of falling off a cliff and Starship will look like it's falling off a cliff as we our belly flop. If you watch He's not wrong. Yeah, it's it's going to be very cartod. No, this is current. Can this thing actually fly? All the shots are current. We were able to prove that out with that suborbital campaign. Yeah, correct. That's what we're about to see shortly here. It's just a couple hundred km away from going h for [ __ ] sake and then going very much downward instead of forward. Yeah. Things in space look very cartoonish when they start falling. Yeah, they do. Very stable. Like I'm honestly surprised that they made it this far. Yeah, looks like we're going to have to we got some work to do. Edit after this, man.

All right, so at this point of sound so star indentation is subic warping you mean from the heat cuz like the stress to chill the engines for a landing burn attempt. Here we go, man. Look at that [ __ ] a little over two minutes. Subsonic Indian Ocean. We're on our way. Delicious. There we go. Wow, look at that. Farewell space. Slightly toasted. Everything in perspective. M yeah, look at the floppiness at the other end of his coming up in just a little under two minutes. So, we're vigorously vigorously floppy over there. Those three center Raptor engines level ones that can kind of gimble that can move around and steer and that would be the velocity down a little bit. All right, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Moment of truth. Speed of our engines chilled in waiting on one more. K. Look, they're using two different flat. Like the flaps are different from each other. Do you see that? Just two raptors. Look at this one here. Right. It doesn't have that same part to it. Also, the mechanism looks wildly different. Yeah. This time around there. There should be two sets, right? One halfway up and one at the bottom. Yeah. Oh [ __ ] look at that. Oh, the cameras, dude. Look at the micro adjustments. Yummy. Yeah, those cameras are taking a little bit of a little bit of a coating. Yeah, that's fine. Now, show us the other one. The starship is no longer accelerating so much as falling. Yes, this is the belly flop maneuver. This is very controlled floppiness. Dude, this is actually cool. Look at how far it's making it. Look for the flip. So, Starship's doing its belly flop right now. We're going to do the flip. Swing out. Yeah, the flip is going to happen right there as we pass through the second cloud line. 1 kilometer and right about Oh, dude, look at the waves. It's nice and windy down there. Yep. They're flipping. Yep. Second cloud line. And they're going to try to I hope it works, man. I really hope it works. I really hope it works. Okay, it's flipping. It's working. It's working. It's working. Yes. And it's hovering. Wow. Holy [ __ ] Wow. Yeah. That is a [ __ ] money shot. Oh my. Nice. Nice. That's that camera man must be having one hell of a time down there with that big ass explosion. Oh yeah, that is fantastic, man. Oh man. Wow. Thank you. Wow, that's insane. They achieved all their goals basically. There. I wasn't sure who was going to hung. I thought it was like that was pretty awesome. Incredible flight for both ship and booster. I'm waiting to see if this ends in a minute. Obviously, we're excited. 45 seconds. Excited over there. Uh Tyler, how's it going over in Hawthorne? You're super excited here in Hawthorne. It was another exciting Starship flight test in the books and we hope you enjoyed those Starling views. So, congratulations to the team at Starbase and everyone here and around the company. So many employees have I'll take my timer away to the Starship program. us towards a multilanet. How dare you? So, that's going to wrap it up for us here in Hawthorne. Thank you to everyone for tuning in today. It was It was great being with you today. Back to you guys. Wow, that was absolutely incredible. Huge congrats to all the teams. Well, looks like we got to get to work, man. We got to get to work. We got to get to work. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Successfully lift us up through a successful not staging where that was beautiful. That was absolutely beautiful, man. Booster came back down. Had that boost back burn and a successful landing burn with that unique engine configuration as well. Yeah. And then ship continued on its way, made it all the way into space. We got to see first ever payload deploy. So exciting. That was awesome. We got the door open. Eight Starlink simulators deployed. Relit that Raptor engine. And then on entry, we probably gave it a little bit of extra time in the oven, but made it all the way through re-entry. All the way past flip splash down in the Indian Ocean. Promise maximum excitement. Starship delivered. So most definitely congratulations all of our teammates here at SpaceX. It's been a year. Everybody that's worked on this program, this is what we're working for. So big congrats to all of them. Thank you to all of our future customers, too, for your support. And we'd also like to thank the fine people of Cameron County, including the residents of its newest city, Starbase, as well as the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, the government of Mexico, and the Australian Space Agency. Be sure to stay tuned to SpaceX on X for updates, more of the views. This is this is just a tiny amount of the views. We have so many views that we didn't get to feature on the broadcast. So, we're going to be going through that over the next couple days, and we'll be posting so many views. We have the best. If you're interested in more launch coverage, head on over to They do. They actually do the most upto-date information. 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All right, we just launched the world's biggest rocket again. Dropped a couple satellites off suborbital. Incredible payload deploy for today. Nailed that double header into the ocean. Splash down. Time to go through the data. really crazy cool to hit all those objectives today. Yeah, huge shout out to all the teams who make this look easy. And thanks to all of you for tuning in and we will see you back here for flight 11. Good night. Wow, that was incredible. That was flawless. That was perfect. That was quite simply perfect. That was quite simply perfect. Great to see a bit of a comeback here. Absolutely excellent. Well, looks like we got some work to do. I got to hit up the music guy and see what he's got cooking up. Then uh we got to like colleate a whole bunch of clips over the next couple days and then turn that into a [ __ ] Starship edit everybody. Yeah. So that's going to be coming out soon. We're going to like uh have that released uh probably before the end of the conversation. We got like I got a whole bunch of stuff that I got going on. So the Starship edit's going to come out in like probably, you know, like a maybe maybe four 4 days, 5 days, whatever we got going on. U depends really really really depends on what it is that we got going on. and uh when the clips are going to come out because SpaceX has got the most HD footage and uh so yeah, we're going to see what happens. Check this out, Adrian. Check out the super quick. Check out the post. I was just cleaning up everything. Oh, one sec. Hold on. It's the craziest look of the heat shield. I think it's still there. And yeah, that looks damn shuttle external tank vibes. Yeah. So, yeah, that's pretty that's pretty solid, actually. So, um what we're going to do is Yeah. So, I'll take I'll take all of that and I'll edit that. Yeah, we're we're going to do a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah, eventually we're probably going to do that. We're probably going to do that in Discord as well. So, I'll see if I can get my guy in and we're probably going to make some really cool [ __ ] happen. Super epic. Super epic. Yeah. So, you guys are you all uh excited for the new edit? You guys excited for the new edit that's going to come out? Cuz we're going to make something. We're going to make something. Hip hype. Yep. People are excited in the chat. Yep, I see uh people responding to that. Yep, there we go. Good [ __ ] They're excited. Coming soon. Cloud Money Shot by Adrien Ditman and crew. What? That's a good one actually. We should keep that for like a future thing. For a future thing. Yeah, that's that's a claw money shot thing. That reminds me of that meme, you know, shadow wizard money gang. Something like that. No, no. Um, was it that? I think it was that. You know, Shadow Wiz Shadow Wizard Money Gang. We love casting spells. Hell yeah. This song is brought to you by the shadow government. The shadow. Like sometime like I don't know what would happen if I were to post that. This post is brought to you by the shadow government. Like imagine scarcity people like that's going to scare so many people. But by the way guys I I kind of I kind of missed this but do you guys realize that it landed exactly on target? I mean the buoy camera was going at point and they had the cameraman down there to like you know check it out. Yeah. Yeah, I mean like it was fully the camera was fully aligned everything. It landed exactly where it's supposed to be within what 10 meters after traveling more than halfway around the earth. Insane precision. Yeah, got to be precise. Yeah, it's always impressive. Like this is like a religious experience for me. Yeah, I'm I couldn't talk. Honestly, that was impressive. Yeah, they exceeded the mission expectations, I'm sure, because yeah, they got extra testing in on the way on the descent and everything. Pretty cool. But I missed something, guys. Maybe I have to watch it again. When they deployed the satellites, I missed that part. I had to go out. It was Did that work? It everything worked perfectly basically. Yeah, it all flawless. At the beginning there was a little kind of a little hiccup for a second and then boom they started doing like like in the videos like the pest dispenser. Yeah. Yeah dispenser. Yeah. Oh my god. One every minute basically. So they do one every minute. I wonder if they're going to speed that up at some point. Oh that was amazing. Sorry just sent me an excellent DM. You're like, "Let me let me like you're blind." This way you just sent me. I said, "Okay." Yeah. Okay. There we go. That's what that is. Now I know. I'm never going to see that acronym the same way again after this. Thanks. You're welcome. Yeah. Oh goodness. Oh, that's good. That's incredible. Tech acronyms are my kryptonite when it comes to having a cohesive conversation. But when it comes to making up new meanings for those acronyms, oh boy. Yes. Yes. Yes. Anytime anybody throws an acronym at me, my brain's like, "All right, acronym roulette. What we got?" Exactly. No, check check uh uh uh Discord DMs. [Laughter] What? I I need one of you. That was beautiful. That like I don't know, man. I could have never thought of that. That was That was incredible. I wish I could show people this, but it's just the world's not ready for that. You guys haven't heard it. I'm sorry. Yeah. Anyways, anyways, back to topic. Damn, absolute future that is, man. That That was incredible. Anyways, kind of back kind of back to topic, but yeah, we're going to we're going to turn that into an edit real soon. Yeah, it's going to be great. I'm going to have to hit up my music guy and we're going to make some songs and then we're going to see whether or not that sounds pretty sounds pretty good. Hey, I do wonder if he needs some samples. I think he's got something ready. Like he was talking about something last time that he already had, but I don't know if he he might be a bit more busy than usual because like he's uh his model changed a a fair bit uh because ads on X don't work as well as it used to. So yeah, right, right. It's a thing. Well, I think that was it, guys. Third times a charm as it would as it would seem. That's literally any other group chat what someone just said about you. We love casting spells. Of course it's a cat. This guy This guy annoys me. This guy annoys me too. I'm not going to lie. Oh my god. Do you want him gone, Adrian? H what? I said do you want him gone? No. No. Okay, good. Every every group needs a punching bag. H I didn't hear what you said. Also, sometimes it's just productive to be annoyed. It motivates you to find better ways to destroy this person you hate. It's true. It's true. Yeah, I'm not annoyed. Who said I'm annoyed? Somehow really vehemently dislike me on top of that. And I just kind of keep it there cuz I'm like, "Hey, this is funny. It tests you whether or not you have the ability. Man, did I just go to [ __ ] Nope, it's still there. Okay, testing, can you guys still hear me? Yep. Nope, I guess not. Hi, we can hear. Can you hear BL now? We're back. Okay. Yeah, we hear you. Yeah, my internet collapsed. That happens sometimes. I just love it when the output stays up but the download goes away. Yes, exactly. So then everybody else can hear you be like, "What the [ __ ] is going on?" Yeah, that that's still in my brain. Yeah, that's not going away anytime soon. I had a I had a meme for this, but Yeah, now you're turning into me. She's turning into Yeah, she's turning into the Alex Jones thing. No, this is turning into me cuz it's like always say, "Oh, I have a meme for this." Like when I'm in a group chat and it's like like just the most insane shit's going to happen. Like just total chaos. And we're all in a group call and it's it's like I sit there, somebody tells me that something's going on. I'm like, "Ooh, interesting." goes in there and it says I I look at the chaos. I'm like, "Oh, I have a meme for this." And I just like drop it the most ridiculous nonsense ever and it just kind of h just happens to fit perfectly. And then whenever somebody comes up with something else, I just come up with another meme at meme. I just have like a endless amounts of memes. Amazing. I could apply that to posts, but not many posts on my timeline are like that have that much of meme potential anymore on top of the like the stuff that I find doesn't have that much mean potential cuz it's kind of like we're entering a period of stagnation where you are like this is what happens when you enter into the Q4 section of the year. You know, like Q3 and Q4 is all about the Q4 part being the most mimetic. And if you can't make that happen, it's been kind of like a boring year of prep, which means if you have a boring year, the next year after that would have to be insane, right? So like 2026, for instance, is going to be full on mimemetic warfare. Like that's all all I'm going to say. Like 2026 is going to be [ __ ] insane. Like this year was just was not even like was it was not as ridiculous as 2024. Not even close. It almost felt like 2023 in a sense, right? But even less than that. It felt like the most normal year that we've had in a very long period of time but more so like a calm before the storm because a lot of promises were made and almost none of them are kept. Now bit of normaly has returned in some ways you know there's not as much political pressure while there is more political pressure in other regions. It's kind of like weird what has happened. It's like we're entering this age of like, you know, where the truth of stuff comes out at the same time. And now we're actually starting to see how ugly things really look like for the first time and where the previous like the the previous positionings just kind of shift around and now everybody if you were to take somebody from like today's positioning and put them into the past, then that was like to be seen as a lib even though like supposedly they were right and like all that shit's going to happen. So you're going to see refactoring of all positions to the point where there will be so much confusion that nobody cares about anything other than the economy which is the only thing you should be caring about, right? Cuz everything else is fake. Politics is not real. It's fake religion which is heathen like heathenistic in a sense. Like I don't like that. I hate politics. It's just a fake religion. This is disgusting. But like that that's that's a thing. So since this entire year was all about like confronting the reality of the situation in a sense 2026 is going to be a continuation of that but it's going to be more insane because we're going to start to see aspects of that reality which needs which needs to be confronted which are very ugly. And so we're going to see what that looks like. Um but yeah so like at the moment nothing much is happening. It's kind of like a we're kind of stagnant. We're in a stagnant period. So things need to be wilder towards the end of the year that then eventually slips into, you know, the crazy period which is then 2026 and then after that maybe a stable period again. Uh I I don't think there will ever be a year as crazy as 2024. Like that was that was peak crazy I think. Like it was just insane. Even like the crossover from 24 to 25 was just insane. Like straight up that was just wild. Yeah. Really? Everything after that was kind of boring, not gonna lie. I found the the terror shenanigans kind of fun. Yeah. Yeah. But that was like nothing, man. That was just undone in like three days. It was a kuruffle. Like then you had the then you had the Iran thing where everybody was like, you know, going against each other there. And I was just okay now I guess we have to learn about Middle Eastern history and everybody's got to like talk about that. So like we we're premining like what's India and Pakistan were like uh I mean they do that a lot but it was a little bit more than usual this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then Trump had to step in and then everybody like started to dislike Trump because they just like where the articles were all about sympathy. He's like oh you got to be careful otherwise mutually like mutually destroy one another. And then everybody in the west was like no [ __ ] it. we don't care about these guys. They're like, "Bro, what the fuck?" The same thing with the meteorite. Remember when they wanted to like try all those uh like they wanted to premine all of those scenarios? Like each and every single one of them and just everybody just not cared about it. That's where they stopped doing it. Have you noticed that like all that [ __ ] just fell off the cliff and they didn't attempt anything like that again afterwards because if you did they were just like you would show how little everybody actually cares about this [ __ ] So stay at that. When they found out that the asteroid might hit China, they stopped caring about it. Yes. Yeah. Cuz like they saw the the probability the the the cone of uncertainty as as to where it was going to land and it was it was densest around the India part. They were like, "Oh no, we're actually fine with the asteroid now." I'm like, "Bruh, that was crazy. That was an that was a wicked premine." Yeah. And it was always these regions. So I guess it felt like a test. If anything, it felt like a test on whether or not people actually cared. And I think that the sentiment around these these regions of the world is taking a turn for the worse, like a lot. And mind you, by the way, I will say this now, it's actually going to get a lot worse. Like you're going to see sentiment for those regions of the planet go down dramatically over the next like over the next 3 or 4 years. It's going to be insane. Maybe even the years after that, especially the years after that because right now you're going to see a slowing down of that a little bit, right? But some of the some of these regions, it's like it's not going to slow down. It's actually going to get faster and worse. So, you get to see a lot more of that. Ironically enough, the ones who are going to come out on top of all of this, I would predict is probably just going to be China. And most of the Asian subp parts because they they did one thing successfully that they've been telling everybody about for decades now, and that would be seizing the means of production. They did that successfully. It's finished. Right? So, and now the US wants its production back, but they don't know how Why don't we just produce it? You could produce production, right? I mean, if they were serious about like bringing production back, they would put they would put Jared Isaacman in the position, right, for like NASA, you know, that's what they would do, but they they would be doing that. So, damn. By the way, is still is this still working? Cuz space interfacer said reconnecting. Okay, good. It glitched for me for a second. I was wondering what's on my side. Yeah, it's just internet funkiness. Periscope does not like it when you make the connection look unstable. No, it does not. It's very finicky. It just decides, oh yeah, we're going to close it randomly now. Like, what the f why? Why don't that's why it's just like you were done. You weren't using that anymore, right? I was like, "No, you weren't using it anymore. That's it." Like, but wait a minute. Nah, no arguments. I don't know. We saw that you weren't using it, so [ __ ] you. Exactly. Really? Yeah. Wicked. Absolutely wicked. I do love the launch here where you got to see two towers, right? Because you see the first tower where it was launching and the second tower in the background. I thought that was nice. That was really cool looking. Very cool. Very cool. It's neat. That was really, really neat. It was neat. I really like the pink plasma. That was dope. Yeah. You watched the previous uh the previous like launches, did you not? No, not really. I only caught the ends of them, which were real fun. Not going to lie, bro. It's very [ __ ] like Kimblecoded Arc take right here. I mean, I don't know. I like uncontrolled explosions. They're cool. I mean, those were those seem very controlled. I mean, the event which they were occurred, which are like, you know, the the ones today were controlled. The ones the last couple times, not so much. They were controlled is controlled with an asterisk, if you will. Yeah. Cuz uh the unpredicted falling is is a problem. So to prevent that from occurring is basically say, "Yeah, [ __ ] that." And then boom. But to be fair, there's a large difference between going, "We're going to catch that explosion and we're going to drop that explosion in the Indian Ocean." Yeah, it's true. One of these is much easier to pull off. It's true. I think they may attempt a catch on the third or second times. All right. Yep. Excellent. It's been the most amount of spaces that we've done like all week, four weeks. Like it's pretty nice to kind of do the daily ones again like we used to do with the conversation like we so back in a sense, right? But yeah, maybe that's going to come back. If I cause another incident, then yeah, maybe that's going to come back where you like do that a little bit. But right now, incidents don't seem to be occurring. Like literally nobody is doing anything. I'm like, this is so cool. It's like there's so much stability. It's crazy. So yeah, we're going to see we're going to we're going to see what uh what happens next. So yeah, beautiful. related news. I have my computer now. Nice. Nice. Could probably do some haloing soon. All right. Okay. If anybody out there has any like really good looking footage that they themselves have recorded off of the Starship landing, not the Starship landing, but like the Starship launching and the booster landing. If you got those two, they look very, very cool. Uh better than SpaceX's even. uh please do send those to us. Uh put them as a reply on any one of my posts preferentially uh preferably of course the one where I was asking for that. So you can go in my timeline, scroll down a little bit and you shall see like the post where it's like hey you know if anyone's taking any videos of the Starship launch reply with them on this post I will use them in an upcoming edit credits will be given of course right so if any one of you has recorded that you have something really cool then yes please do send that it's going to be epic it's going to be nice right I think that's it we're we're done here I think yeah epic launch This was really, really, really nice. Mission accomplished. Yeah. Perfect launch. Next level. Been fun team. As I said, third time. Yeah, as I said, throw times a charm. So, now we're going to have to like get to work. I'm going to hit up my music guy. All right. Thanks everyone for coming. Uh, I'll also be uh, by the way, can you like throw up the link? Yeah. Thank you, Adrian. Cuz I'm going to be doing the edit live when it does come through. Yeah, do live on my server. Yes. On stages. I think we're going to do it on stages. Maybe. N. We'll do it in the premium section. Share the station. Do it again. Done again. All there we go. Now I can see it. All right. So I'm going to be doing editing in there once we get all the clips together. Once we have that all co collated so you can kind of like see what we're doing and how we do the work. So uh yeah, we'll see how how we'll do that exactly. But yeah, should be uh should be pretty fun. All right, thanks everybody for coming. Um see see you all uh see you all I guess during the weekend. I'll post my space for the conversation in a bit and then we'll have that scheduled. So yeah, next time you'll see me on a space will be probably on the weekend. Yeah. Sweet. Byebye. Excellent. All right. See you all. Have a good day. Bye everybody. Good day.