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