Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company, and Neurolink.
I'm your. Host Will Walden How is Tik
Tok's uncertain future in the United States fueling
competition in social media right now?
Also, what makes Blue Skies decentralized model a unique
approach in video? And can X and Blue Sky truly
attract Tik Tok's user base by mimicking its short form video
format? Now, X has unveiled a new
vertical video feed added to their X United States app.
It's accessible via a dedicated video tab in the bottom
navigation. Bar and it's very.
Similar to TikTok in some ways, there's a continuous scroll
through short form videos. Similar also to YouTube and
Instagram and all the other short form TikTok style video
platforms out there right now and it integrates into Axis
video first multimedia approach. They've had live video for a
while. They used to have live video a
long time ago too. When I was doing my space news
pod channel on YouTube. I specifically went over to
Twitter when it was Twitter to do their live video streaming.
You couldn't make any money on it.
It wasn't like it is now where it's all monetized.
You could get things called stars, I believe, and you could
earn stars, which then turned into something which we didn't
know what it was, but it was kind of like magical fairy dust.
Nobody really got any money from it, but you could become popular
if you did a bunch of live stuff on Twitter at that point.
But you know, because it was. There's always a video.
It's called Periscope back then, but now short form video has
taken over. TikTok is in the dumps because
of the new administration and because of the Supreme Court.
But are they going to come back? Well, Apple's App Store has
kicked them off. We don't think they're going to
go back in the App Store because why would they risk it?
Also, Android App Store out of there too.
There's huge, huge penalties if you break the law.
And Apple and Google would both, the Google Play Store would both
see huge fines for this. So the these new additions to X
aim to attract Tik Tok's user base during its period of
uncertainty. So even if they could capture
some of that millions of followers, that's a plus for X
right now. But here's another thing Blue
Sky the kind of direct competitor to X especially it's
it was what Twitter used to be. Blue Sky now features a vertical
video feed under the Explore tab.
Users can swipe through trending videos, pin feeds to their home
screen, or create targeted feeds based on specific hashtags.
So when you do that, you don't have to worry about an
algorithm. Videos are capped at 59 seconds,
so under one minute. And it's built on blue skies.
Decentralized AT protocol enabling developer
customization. It's customizable and user
driver driven video experience tailored to individual
preferences as opposed to them feeding you a bunch of stuff
like TikTok used to do. Now TikTok faces unscrutiny or
scrutiny now and uncertainty in the United States over data
security concerns and ties to its Chinese parent company.
Excuse me, it's kind of late here so if I stumble a little
bit, that's why Chinese parent company byte dance.
US ban narrowly avoided in the past, but future restrictions
remain possible in the coming months.
You know, platforms like X and Blue Sky are responding to Tik
Tok's ban by basically mimicking TikTok features that other
people might want to use. If you don't think you'll ever
be. I mean, the, the App Store is
you can't download the apps anymore.
You can't download TikTok anymore.
And if X can get some of that user base because they do
something very similar to TikTok, it's not the same.
It won't feel the same, and Blue Skies doesn't feel the same
either, but it is. Vertical.
Short form video. So some people might move over
social media giants accelerating their roll out of short form
video features increases competition.
It's not just TikTok against Instagram anymore YouTube shorts
jumped in X, of course, a little bit late in blue sky a little
bit late too. But X and blue sky positioning
themselves as alternatives for TikTok users that haven't
migrated over to YouTube shorts at this point.
But YouTube Shorts is kind of like the graveyard for TikTok
videos. So the short form video tools
becoming central to platform development is key for people to
move to these platforms. Cap cut is huge on TikTok.
What is X offer? They don't offer anything like
that. Now that does Blue Sky, YouTube
has the YouTube app which you can record in and you know they
don't have anything like cap cut though, so you can record and do
some very simple editing, but X and Blue Sky don't have anything
compared to what TikTok has. Companies adapting to the
potential absence of a major player like TikTok are going to
see a short burst in new users when users cannot download
TikTok. So we'll see how that works out
for them. Blue Sky is built on the AT
protocol. The AT protocol, which allows
developers to create custom video and content feeds.
Independent tools like Grey's Social and Skyfeed are being
developed to enhance video capabilities.
So not only is this open, unlike Elon Musk's X, which we all
love, but you can have independent tools attached
directly to an app that you use. You don't have to use Blue Sky
because it's on the app protocol.
There's more analytics, blending of text and video on Blue Sky
and personalized user experiences.
You can personalize everything on Blue Sky.
So Speaking of decentralization, it fosters innovation and
diverse use cases now. So what we were talking about
before, the developers can develop on top of the platform,
unlike X where you can't because it's owned by Elon Musk.
It's a closed garden. You know, it's kind of a kind of
a mood point, but also a little bit funny is that?
Elon. Musk is a bastion for free
speech and. It.
Oh so I think of software as speech.
I'm a web developer by trade. Check out my website
willwalden.com if you need any help or any work done.
And also, I believe in open source, I believe in open source
software. And I'm sure Twitter and X have
used parts of open source software.
I believe language is code and code is language.
So I don't understand why Elon Musk hasn't opened up X to, I
mean, there there's an API, but he charges for it.
It costs money. So that's not free speech in my,
in my own opinion, if you have to charge for something that's
not free anymore. So think about that.
So is Blue Sky doing free speech better than X?
Just think about it for a second.
I don't know. I don't know.
It's a, it's an interesting topic to think about though.
So integration of vertical video on X though, it's part of the
larger multimedia ecosystem that Elon is building.
So he's building an everything app.
It's similar to Facebook in many regards.
Facebook has Reels, Facebook has a news feed, Facebook has
favorites, Facebook has Live. They've had it for a while.
They had payment integrations and Elon Musk.
A lot of. People are thinking that he's
just copying Zuck, you know, and that's, that's an opinion from
some people because Facebook kind of has everything already.
And Elon is trying to make something that's similar to
Facebook. And he says it's going to be
more than that where you can hail an Uber or hail a Tesla,
things like that, which is going to be very cool when it does
happen. So then let's go back to the
integration of this vertical video.
And I'm not a Elon hater, by the way.
I love, I love the the companies that he's built.
So I'm just putting some points about the apps and the way that
things are structured just so we can think about this together.
It's seamless navigation though on the X app bottom bar, super
easy. Tap it real quick.
I don't like things in the top bar.
I don't know about you or like on the sidebar or anything like
that in your apps. Put it at the bottom where my
thumbs already at because if I have to reach over, I have a
kind of, I have a bigger phone with iPhone Pro Max and it's
like kind of a big phone. So if I have to reach like up,
the phone gets a little floppy in my hand.
So at the bottom is perfect spot for that.
It's focused on simplicity. The the interface is very
simple. So it's really easy to pick up
and use. And it's going to be a
comprehensive content platform in the future.
Because of vertical video, we had horizontal video.
You can upload as long a video as you want to as long as you
pay for it. So think about that too.
If you have to pay to speak freely through video on a
platform, is that still free speech platform?
I just like to think about these things sometimes I like to think
about them, but I want you to think about them too.
So that's why I bring them up. It's not about heat, not I'm not
hating on anybody. But so.
Far they both had a positive reaction.
Many users appreciate the added functionality and the TikTok
like experience on X Suggestions for improvement from a bunch of
users. Extended video length limits and
editing features. That's one of the big ones.
The editing features, TikTok has a lot of those which these other
apps don't have yet. But this is version A1.
So in the near future probably going to get some extended video
lengths maybe and some TikTok like editing features as well.
So let me know if you've. Used these app in the comments
on whatever podcast platform that you're listening on right
now. I'd like to hear what you think
about it. I'm a big proponent of XI love
free speech. I think it's a great thing I
love short form video. You'll find me some mornings
when I wake up earlier than the wife.
Then I'm just scrolling through Tiktok or skipping through some
YouTube Shorts and you'll hear me talk about them here and
there. So I'm a huge proponent of short
form video and I can't wait to dig into all the short form
video that I can find on X and also Blue Sky and check out our
Discord. If you want some other
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help. Some insiders have tipped me off
to a few things that have happened with Starship in the
past. Now whether that's IFT one
through IFT 7, I can't tell you this because this person needs
to be hidden. They weren't supposed to tell
anybody this, but they told me this.
So some of the things that have happened to Starship during the
flights that could have gone horribly wrong, but luckily they
didn't in these circumstances for some of this stuff.
So I have to be very vague here because I'm kind of protecting
somebody. This is an insider that's
telling me things that have gone wrong with some starships.
OK, so you know there's a booster on Starship.
There's a giant booster. It's about 250 feet tall and the
ship itself is about 150 ish feet tall.
So the whole thing is about 400 feet tall.
The booster is the part of the bottom, if you're not familiar,
and the top part is called Starship.
So in between there there is what's it called?
There's a, there's a, a, a stage in between there too.
And the stage in between there the it's so it's a hot staging.
So when the booster in the top stage separate, this part kind
of takes all the energy from the top stage when it kicks off and
it pushes it to the side and the hot staging ring.
Flies off into. You know, into the abyss, but
the booster would come back at land eventually in one of these
flights. But I can't tell you which one
this is for. I mean, this isn't the one.
That that actually landed, so I'll let.
You speculate all you want. So there's a thing, and I'm
looking over here because this is where my information is here.
During the separation of the Starship from a Super Heavy
booster, unexpected harmonic vibrations developed in the
interstage connection points. So everything's moving around,
everything's shaking. It's a very violent place
between the booster and the ship at all times during the flight.
Now the oscillations caused a three second delay in a clean
separation. So if you go back and you.
Watch some of this footage and I can't show you the footage, but
if you watch some of the footage, you'll see there might
be a little bit of a delay and they might not even show it on
the camera. I've looked through a lot of the
footage here and I couldn't find the exact time that they were
talking about, but there was a three second delay between the
clean separation, which forced the flight computer to adjust
the vehicle's trajectory just enough to compensate for the
altered flight path. So what this is telling us is
that all systems, even if they go awry, the systems that are in
place to fix these things, they're there and they work.
So that was number one of about, I think I have 5 things here.
Yeah, five things that they sent me.
And these are for past launches. And like I said before, I can't
tell you which one it is because you can might be able to track
it to who this person is. There's a methane header tank
pressure anomaly as well. Header tank maintaining pressure
for the Raptor engines. Methane supply experienced micro
fluctuations causing brief thrust instability.
Flight computer constantly adjusted the engine mixture
ratio to maintain stable combustion, reducing overall
efficiency by about 4% for this one flight.
So that again, it means that there wasn't an explosion,
nothing blew up during this time during the methane header tank
anomaly, but it did reduce overall efficiency by about. 4%.
And that could be a big deal if you're sending cargo for
somebody else into orbit. And if that 4% keeps you away
from the orbit that you need to go to, or makes the Starship
itself actually push harder and maybe not get you to the orbit
that you need to get to, because that 4% is a huge deal.
Four out of a. 100 is a pretty big deal.
It's not huge, but it's 4% nonetheless.
And there's been problems throughout all of these flights
with the heat shield of the Starship.
We've seen these things blow up, we've seen the meltdown, we've
seen them burn to a crisp. There's been heat shield
problems since day one with this thing.
And it's impossible to get this absolutely perfect because mind
you, this is about seven flights in at this point.
At the time of this video, it's seven flights in, so seven
flights of an experimental rocket, and they're still
figuring out the. Heat.
Shield tiles. And it's OK, it's still a still
not a production vehicle yet. So they're still learning and
they're still working on the heat Shields.
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Next with the heat. Shield So several tiles on the
windward side of Starship showed unexpected thermal gradient
patterns during re entry, with localized hotspots reaching
1800°C instead of around 1500 ish.
While still within safety margins, requires the vehicle to
adjust its re entry angle by an additional .7°.
This could be a big deal in the future if SpaceX was going to
land these rockets at .7° could mean that they might not be able
to land the rocket back at Star Base or back at Kennedy Space
Center because they're off target.
So that could be a big deal in the future when Spacex's
Starship is trying to land. Now, .7° could also, depending
on where it is in the flight, could send it over land and over
people and over a scary place. If it does blow up, if it does
have a Rudd, a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
And if that's the case, it could shatter, it could blow up, and
it could just spray the whole area with a molten steel.
Imagine that you're just hanging out with your friends in your
backyard and you see the bright lights in the sky.
That's cool, but it's all shards of super hot, super sharp steel.
That's kind of dangerous and I don't know which flight this is
for Remind, I'm reminding you this now, but that did happen in
a past flight of a Starship. Now let's go on to the grid fin
actuator desynchronization. Now I'm going to go tell you
this again, this is from an actual person that's very close
to Starship's production. Want to let you know this.
And one of the four grid fins on Super Heavy experienced A50
millisecond lag. And that's doesn't.
Seem to be a lot right? But it's in this hydraulic
response time creating a asymmetric aerodynamic control
during descent boosters flight computer compensates by
adjusting the remaining grid fins positions more
aggressively. So that's one of the reasons why
they have all. Those grid fins if.
One is a failure, then the other ones can take up the slack.
SpaceX thought everything. It's redundancy ma'am.
It was built like that on purpose.
Not only is it for the drag and to maneuver the rocket and the
the booster back end, but also in case one fails, the other
ones can pick up the slack. They thought of everything.
Now the last one we have here is the communication array phase
lock error. High band, high bandwidth
communication system experiences intermittent phase lock errors
due to unexpected ionization in the plasma field around the
vehicle during RE entry. So think of whatever starships
were coming back in that were molten.
Hot. Reduces data transmission rates
to ground stations by about 60%. For about 45 seconds and that's
through critical telemetry, yeah, or though it says critical
telemetry remains unaffected. So 45 seconds of data
transmission had was missing during this flight.
So it could be something where they miss a really important
piece of data if they want to use this flight as a a building
block for the next flights and they would.
Just not have that data for the next ones.
So those are five things that no one's ever published before and
no one's ever seen before. And the reason why I have these,
and I'll tell you this, the reason why I have these is
because I spent about a year down at Starbase and I know
some. People that are down in that
area. That's all I got to say that's.
All I'm going to say so. I'd be very bland about
everything. I can't tell you everything
that's happening. But I can tell you like because
of these things, and it hasn't shown really in Spacex's
Starship launches and the reentries that any of this has
made a huge impact on the actual flights other than maybe the
heat shield. That might have been a thing.
Grid fan was fixed. Methane tank, methane header
tank, pressure anomaly, That might have been a thing, but
overall efficiency was down by 4%.
It's a pretty big deal eventually.
But yeah, they might be able to, you know, fix that up.
So I don't know if they fix that up or what flight that was for.
They didn't tell me which flight these were for, by the way,
because they didn't want to be tracked back.
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really great at. President Trump's inauguration
last night, Elon Musk and also President Trump both highlighted
that they want to send humans to the surface of Mars within the
next 4 years. Now Elon Musk has broad
ambitions, grand ambitions to send people to the Red Planet
and he has since starting SpaceX.
The first thing that he wanted to do when he first started
SpaceX was build a rocket, or buy a rocket, I should say, from
Russia, that would send just a plant to inspire people to visit
the planet of Mars. But that didn't go through.
And then he started his own space company, SpaceX, and we
all know the history of that. Now they're building a Starship
down a star base in Boca Chica. Star Base, Texas.
And The thing is massive, 400 feet tall.
It is built specifically. To go to Mars, it is built
specifically to go to the moon. It's a deep space rocket.
Now. It's also a low Earth orbit
rocket, which will see it sending star link satellites to
Earth orbit. So SpaceX can make trillions of
dollars from the broadband satellites, but that will fund
future Starship development. Now, President Trump wants this
to happen in his four year term. Elon Musk has stated numerous
times, back in 2022 actually, Elon has said that he wants to
put boots on the surface of Mars by 2029.
Is this a realistic goal for Elon?
Is this a realistic goal for SpaceX?
And also, is this a realistic goal for humanity?
Now, the furthest that we've been out in space is the moon.
12 people have stood on the moon, have done science on the
moon, have dug holes in the moon, driven Rovers, played golf
and jumped around, fallen over things that humans do on the
moon. But we're going to be going back
there for the Artemis missions. And NASA thinks the Artemis
missions are an important factor for us as humanity to get to
Mars now. If that's the case.
You know, NASA wants to send people to the moon in 2028.
Probably 20-30 ish probably is the best bet that we're going to
be sending people back to the moon due to budget constraints,
scheduling. I mean, so let's just, let's
break this down a little bit. They're making space suits.
Axiom is making space suits for this.
Other companies are making the the lunar outpost, which will be
orbiting the lunar orbiter, which will be orbiting the moon.
And they have to have a Lander, right?
So they have to have people that land on the moon, but they also
have to have a big rocket to launch those people to the
moon's orbit where they will, that'll be on the SLS rocket.
They'll be going to the moon's orbit from the SLS and joining
up with Spacex's Starship in the orbit.
And then SpaceX will lower them down to the surface of the moon
where they do science discovery, all the things that we did
before on the moon. They'll be doing them again.
And there's a buggy that's that's going to be built as
well. And it's in the process of being
built right now, which will be pretty cool for people to move
around on the moon. But what is?
That How does that translate into Mars?
One of the things was we have to get people to Mars and get them
home, right? So one of the things that we're
going to be doing on the moon is trying to make in situ fuel for
a Lander. And in order to do that, you
have to use ice, make it into hydrogen, make some liquid
oxygen, and therefore you make that out of the ice.
You may have a a production facility up there where you make
that into some rocket fuel and you get back into the moon's
orbit and launch yourself back towards Earth.
Is that realistic for people to do that within the time frame
that Elon and Trump are in office?
That's four years. From now, right now it's
20252029 is when Elon wants to send people to Mars.
And if we don't have the ability to do in situ fuel on the moon,
there's no way as of right now that Elon and his crew have
planned or at least published in any way how they would get
people back from the surface of Mars.
Now they're still testing Starship.
They just launched Flight 7 with a block 2 Starship on top of a
booster. The booster made it back to
starbase totally fine, landed on the chopstick arms and can be
refurbished. Not reflown yet.
We don't think of this one's going to refly but the ship
itself. The Starship deteriorated.
It blew up over the Indian Ocean.
There is debris scattered for hundreds of miles.
Now The thing is Starship doesn't have an eject mechanism
either. And this isn't even the people
Starship yet. This is the cargo Starship which
is specifically designed to just launch Starlink satellites into
orbit. So going for and I'm not a hater
here. I want this to be known that I'm
not a hater of SpaceX. I've spent over a year or about
a year down at star base as an on the ground reporter on the
side of the road filming Starship.
I'm a huge fan of space exploration.
I'm a huge fan of SpaceX. So don't get me wrong here.
So when they're building these Starships.
And they will build them. Relative.
I mean, as far as rocket go, rockets go, they built them
extremely fast. They could build, you know,
tens, 1520 of them in a year. How many launches?
Can they do a year? Well, that depends on how many
accidents they have along the way.
So because of this incident report that needs to be done
because this Starship blew up, it's going to possibly set them
back a few months and every few months that they're set back.
Even though the. Rockets are ready.
You know, pretty soon the Rockets will be ready.
To fly, Elon Musk said about four weeks between the last
flight, the Flight 7 and Flight A, He said about a a month
before the next hardware is ready.
And I believe him. It'll be about a month before
they get all the the testing done.
And they're in there tested, most of it.
The boosters been tested, the ship's been tested already.
So they're going to continue testing and move him down to the
launch tower as soon as possible.
Now, the FAA and the incident report, this is for current
events. So we have to really think about
what's happening right now and then think about what could
happen for the next six months to a year before anything
happens with Artemis or even getting star links into orbit.
The Block 2 Starship, there was a leak of some sort and it
exploded. Elon thought, thinks they can
fix it out. There's going to be a fire
suppression systems added, There's going to be venting
added. So there's a possibility that
they fix this for the next flight.
But if they don't, that would push them back a few more months
too. And also, this incident report
is something that SpaceX does. So SpaceX figures out what
happened to the Starship, exactly what happened to the
Starship. No guessing.
They figure out everything in fine minute detail.
They report it to the FAA, and if the FAA is OK with the result
of that investigation, then the FAA will allow them to fly
Starships again. Could the FAA put a lot of
pressure on Starship and on Elon Musk and SpaceX?
Yes, they could. With the Trump administration
trying to, I wouldn't say dismantle these operations, but
kind of tone it down a little bit so they can allow these
launches to happen at a faster pace.
The FAA might have to step back a little bit.
And it depends on, you know, if there's executive orders issued
or if Elon and company, because Elon's really close with the
president. Elon has doge, Elon has in his
pocket right now the the most wealthy person in the world is
right next to the president. So back door deals going on,
they talk a lot. And I'm not, you know, it's not
conspiracy stuff here. This is just what happens to
people. You know, it's a job.
So when people talk to other people and Elon's like, hey, do
you want to be the person that sends people to Mars?
Do you want to be the president while humans set foot on Mars?
This will go down in history for the rest of humanity.
How can we get this done? How can we get these people to
Mars on your term? Four years.
They have four years to build a ship.
They can send people to Mars and they can survive everything from
the Earth. All the way to Mars.
Can you build that ship? I believe SpaceX could do it.
Is it going to take a lot of time?
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
It's going to take a lot of time.
Can they send an uncrewed cargo mission within the next few
years? Possibly.
There's a window for them to open up travel in 2026, but if
they miss that deadline in 2026 to send anything to Mars and
Elon wants to send cargo in a, you know, to the, to orbit Mars
or possibly a few Starships to land on Mars, the next launch
window is in late 2028 into early 2029.
And if they miss that window, it's another 26 months.
So if they don't do this, this is a rapid iteration of
Starship. 4 years of building this thing.
It's been about 10:00-ish years. I'm gonna this broad spectrum
here. 10:00-ish years of them from the very beginning of like
the planning stages of Starship until now.
Now we see physical starships launching, We see physical
starships blowing up. We also see the booster not
landing properly. We, you know, and this is early,
early development right now too. So I'm not throwing any shade at
these guys and the the fact that we're still in early development
means if. They have a. 100 launches in a
year, which Good Shotwell said they have to do in order to be
safe. You know, they want to do
thousands of launches to be safe in order for people to be inside
of a Starship. They haven't even launched a
human Starship yet. They don't.
They can't even get the cargo Starship right, which isn't a
bad thing because we all know it's iterative design and we
just have to take that into consideration.
Do I want them to do it? Absolutely.
I want them to launch uncrewed ships.
In 2026, I want them anything they could send anything.
It doesn't have to come back, you know, it doesn't have to
come back to Earth because if they don't figure that part out,
the coming back to Earth. But if they figure out how to.
Launch and land something on Mars.
It took NASA decades to figure out how to launch and land
something on Mars successfully in the way they did it.
If you remember, they did it in numerous ways.
If it was a small Lander, they surrounded it with basically
Lander bubble wrap. You know, the, there was a Rover
and it had balloons around it and as it fell into, onto the
surface of Mars, it bounced and the, the balloons deflated
basically when they came to a stop.
And also the Seven minutes of terror, which is one of the
Rovers that had a sky crane. So it was a hovering sky crane
that dropped the Rover from chains basically, and lowered it
down to the surface of Mars. Now can.
You get a 40. Story building.
Actually, it's a 25 story building.
This is about 200 plus feet tall to land vertically on the
surface of Mars. With no landing.
Gear because right now Starship doesn't have landing.
Gear. What they want to do is make an
in situ landing pad for Starship to land.
There's no landing gear right now.
We haven't seen any landing gear other than the Moon variant, the
lunar variant of Starship, and we haven't seen any indication
that the Mars Starship would have any landing gear.
So how are they going to do this by 2029?
Because they're not going to build another.
They're not going to build a tower on Mars, of course.
Could they build a land? Could they send things in this
first cargo mission or the 1st cargo missions to make an
institute landing area for Starship on Mars?
Could they just land on the rocky surface of Mars?
And there's the. Possibility.
But how do they do that without damaging the rocket itself or
the engines? Because imagine those Raptor
engines floating down to the surface of Mars, and as it's
floating down, it's kicking up rocks and dust and debris, and
those could kick up and destroy one of the engines.
Those astronauts are stranded there forever.
They would likely die on Mars. There's no coming back.
There's no rescue missions. When you go to Mars, you have to
wait for the next launch window. And if you can't make it for the
26 months, watch the movie The Martian.
That's very similar to what would happen.
You'd have to use whatever tools you have available to you, or
you have to use whatever food is available to you to grow more
food. But if you can do uncrewed
starships beforehand, you could make that a possibility now.
There's so many logistics to do. Could they send people around
Mars in the time that Trump is in office?
4 years for people to fly around Mars.
Remember the first flights around the moon weren't
spectacular. There were just people in pods
flying around the moon. The pods themselves flew around
the moon. Just to see if it.
Would work. Their test pilots, these people,
their test pilots, the first people to fly around the moon.
It's going to be a whole different situation then what
happens in Mars at Mars 20th. It takes months to get to Mars,
6 to 9 months to get to Mars, and therefore 6 to 9 months to
get to Mars. And you also will do a fly by.
You probably have a crew member or five crew members with you,
four or five crew members with you.
It's going to be a it's going to be a long trip.
And could you imagine, just think about this, you go on a
road trip with your family and you're gone for, you know, maybe
it takes you a day or two, a day or two and you know, you get to
your destination and by that time you're exhausted, right?
Like you get to the destination after two or three days of
driving in a car, you're bored, you're exhausted and you just
want to chill for a little bit. You know, you're excited though,
right? But imagine doing that for nine
months. This like staying in your room,
your bedroom. Because it's not going to be a
big space. But think about that, like,
could you do it yourself? Astronauts do it on the
International Space Station all the time.
They spent about a year up there.
So could they spend nine months to get there and then nine
months to get home? That's, you know, over two
years. You know, it's around 2 years.
So yeah, it's going to be a, it's going to be a tough one,
like a year and a half in flight.
To go to Mars. And then you'd probably park in
an orbit, either A, around the moon or B, around Earth when you
come back. So you'd have to park in the
orbit. And then because they're not
going to have landing gear, they're not going to have any
way for these people to land Starship unless they figure out
a way for it to flip to the flip maneuver and land on the surface
on the chopsticks, which they're working on.
Elon says he wants to do it in the next few flights.
So if they can figure that out and they can use a very dumped
down version of a Starship to go to Mars with just a few
portholes, you know, because what we see from the renders
are. Huge.
Windows on the nose cone. But that's not going to happen
for the first flight. There's no way they have.
They don't know how to do the technology for that yet.
They're still working on that. They're working on all of this
behind the scenes, but it hasn't been tested and it won't be
tested. At least if they're going to be
flying in within four years. They have to test this for the
2026 flight. So in about a year, they have to
be able to fly a full Starship with Windows.
You know the full, the full thing where people will fly in
it to Mars in order to test it just to send cargo there.
And then by 2029 20 late 20/28/2020 9:00 they have to
have a full rocket ready to go. Now, mind you, they can send
things like the window is a window where it's the fastest to
get there, right? They can send things before and
after take a little bit longer to get there, but they could do
it. They could possibly do it.
So it takes nine months to get there at the fastest, 6-9 months
the fastest time. And if it's not the fastest time
or in the fastest window, that could be, you know, a year to
get there. And that's, you know, that's
still something that they should test for.
And if they can launch, you know, they have two launch
towers at Starbase, pretty soon they're going to be the second
tower will be a fully operational.
And when that's fully operational, they will be able
to launch two rockets, I'm assuming not simultaneously, but
within a specific launch window of each other, probably within
24 hours of each other. So they'll be able to crank
these things out at a phenomenal rate, have two or three launches
per week at the best. I mean, that would be, that
would be remarkable if they got to that point.
Making the Raptor engines, that's their choke point.
If they can reuse the engines, you know they're going to be
able to reuse the boosters. Once they get that nailed and
they can reuse every single booster, then it'll be just
making ships and engines. So the boosters will be fine for
10 flights and making more ships is the, you know, is the would
be the choke point at that at that time.
Because having the the engines being reusable and the booster
be reusable, and eventually the Starship being reusable, the top
part that will be clutch in doing the testing that they need
in order to fly people to Mars. Now are they going to get to
that in the next year so they can ship a cargo ship to the
surface of Mars or around Mars orbit?
That's a wait and see kind of thing.
They've caught 2. Boosters, the first one they
caught and they were they said that they were telemetry was off
and their systems were off like some of their systems were like
a little bit acting a little bit wonky.
So when they landed the first one, it wasn't 100% precise.
They landed it, but they didn't land it super precise.
The second one after that, the one after that, they had a ditch
it into the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump is going to call the
Gulf of America, apparently. And then the third one, they
landed it on the on the booster catch arms.
And then that's the one that the Starship blew up over the over
the Indian Ocean. So there was definitely
precedent. That the Starship booster, his
land, the Super Heavy booster has landed twice and that is
huge as far as reusability goes. Now, if they can nail that
within the next, you know, if they nail every single one for
the next 10 flights and they start reusing boosters after the
fourth attempt of landing, a successful attempt at landing, I
believe they can start reusing these things after 10 flights.
You know, I, I. Don't see a reason why not.
As long as the engines are intact, they can refurbish the
booster, They could reuse it, they could re fly it.
And then once they start catching starships too, there's
a possibility that they can just reuse the same Starship.
They wouldn't reuse the same Starship in order to go to Mars,
of course, because they need kind of like, I mean, a flight
tested Starship is a, a, a tested Starship.
It's like it's a test drive for a car.
You don't get a car off the lot without testing it and testing
it. You have to drive it a little
bit unless it's, you know, a higher end car.
But you get they do have to do tests before you fly a rocket to
Mars. So a flight tested rocket and a
flight tested booster might be better than a brand new one
that's never been tested before. And that's what they found out
with Falcon 9. Is that the flight proven
boosters work just as good as a brand new one.
And they're kind of hesitant. They're like, I don't know, like
an untested booster, We don't know if it's going to work.
So the Starship, the tested Starship is probably going to be
their first flight to Mars. But I want to, I want to say
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Everybody just want to get my thoughts out there about the
Starship and Elon Musk because there's some huge, huge news
with the Trump administration coming into play that there's a
possibility they could like they could just throw all everything
at Starship. Like not government funding, but
they could push, you know, government agencies to just let
Elon and SpaceX do what they got to do, you know, relax some
government stuff. So Elon can launch 100 rockets
in a year from Starbase and also they're going to start building,
they are building the infrastructure at Kennedy Space
Center to launch more rockets. So if they could launch two
starships from Starbase and then two starships from Kennedy Space
Center. Even I mean.
Even one Starship from Kennedy Space Center, so only have one
tower there to begin with. Three rockets in a day.
The FAA is going to be really busy.
That's all I got to say. The government agencies have got
to step it up. So Elon is ready to take the
next step. Is humanity ready to?
Take the next step. I don't know.
That's a question we all have to ask ourselves.
So I have to be very vague here because I'm kind of protecting
somebody. This is an insider that's
telling me things that have gone wrong with some Starships.
Some insiders have tipped me off to a few things that have
happened with Starship in the past.
Now, whether that's IFT one through IFT 7, I can't tell you
this because this person needs to be hidden.
They weren't supposed to tell anybody this, but they told me
this. So some of the things that have
happened to Starship during the flights that could have gone
horribly wrong, Luckily they didn't in these circumstances
for some of this stuff. OK, so you know, there's a
booster on Starship. There's a giant booster.
It's about 250 feet tall and the ship itself is about 100 and. 50
ish feet. Tall.
So the whole thing is about 400 feet tall.
The booster is the part of the bottom, if you're not familiar,
and the top part is called Starship.
So in between there is the hot staging.
So when the booster in the top stage separate this part kind of
takes all the energy from the top stage when it kicks off and
it pushes it to the side and the hostaging ring flies off into,
you know, into the abyss. But the booster would come back
and land eventually and one of these flights, but I can't tell
you which one this is for. I mean, this isn't the one that
that actually landed. So I'll let you speculate all
you want. So there's a thing, and I'm
looking over here because this is where my information is here.
During the separation of the Starship from a Super Heavy
booster, unexpected harmonic vibrations developed in the
interstage connection points. So everything's moving around,
everything's shaking. It's a very violent place
between the booster and the ship at all times during the flight.
Now the oscillations caused a three second delay in a clean
separation. So if you.
Go back and you watch some of this footage and I can't show
you the footage, but if you watch some of the footage,
you'll see there might be a little bit of a delay and they
might not even show it on the camera.
I've looked through a lot of the footage here and I couldn't find
the exact time that they were talking about, but there was a
three second delay between the clean separation which forced
the flight computer to adjust the vehicle's trajectory just
enough to compensate. For the altered flight path.
So what this is telling us is that all systems, even if they
go awry, the systems that are in place to fix these things,
they're there and they work. So that was number one of about,
I think I have 5 things here. Yeah, five things that they sent
me. And these are for past launches.
And like I said before, I can't tell you which one it is because
you can might be able to. Track it to who this person is.
There's a methane header tank pressure anomaly as well.
Header tank maintaining pressure for the Raptor engines.
Methane supply experienced micro fluctuations causing brief
thrust instability. Flight Computer constantly
adjusted the engine mixture ratio to maintain stable
combustion, reducing overall efficiency by about 4% for this
one flight, so that again it means that there wasn't an
explosion. Nothing blew up during this time
during the methane header tank anomaly, but it did reduce
overall efficiency by about. 4%. And that could be a big deal if
you're sending cargo for somebody else into orbit and if
that 4% keeps you away from the orbit that you need to go to.
Or makes the Starship itself actually push harder and maybe
not get you to the orbit that you need to get to because that
4% is a huge deal. Four out of a. 100 is a pretty
big deal. It's not huge, but it's 4%
nonetheless. And there's been problems
throughout all of these flights with the heat shield of the
Starship. We've seen these things blow up,
we've seen the meltdown, we've seen them burn to a crisp.
There's been heat shield problems since day one with this
thing. And it's impossible to get this
absolutely perfect because mind you, this is about seven flights
in at this point. At the time of this video, it's
seven flights in, so seven flights of an experimental
rocket. And they're still figuring out
the heat shield tiles and it's OK.
It's still a still not a production vehicle yet.
So they're still learning and they're still.
Working on the heat. Shields.
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So let's go on to the next with the heat shield.
So several tiles on the windward side of Starship showed
unexpected thermal gradient patterns during RE entry.
With localized hotspots. Reaching 1800°C instead of
around. 1500 ish. While still within safety
margins, requires the vehicle to adjust its re entry angle.
By an additional. .7° This could be a big.
Deal in the future. If SpaceX was going to land
these rockets at .7°. Could mean that.
They might not be able to land the rocket back at Starbase or
back at Kennedy Space Center because they're off target, so
that could be a big deal in the future when Spacex's Starship is
trying to land. Now .7° could also, depending on
where it is in the flight, could send it.
Over land and over people and over.
A scary place if it does blow up, if it does have a Rudd, a
rapid unscheduled disassembly. And if that's the case, it could
shatter, it could blow up, and it could just spray the whole
area with a molten steel. Imagine that you're just hanging
out with your friends in your backyard and you see the bright
lights in the sky. That's cool, but it's all shards
of super hot, super sharp steel. That's kind of dangerous.
And I don't know which flight this is for remind, I'm
reminding you this now, but that did happen in a past flight of a
Starship. Now let's go on to the grid fin
actuator desynchronization. Now I'm going to go tell you
this again, this is from an actual person that's very close
to Starship's production. Want to let you know this and
one of the four grid fins on Super Heavy experienced A50
millisecond lag. And that's doesn't seem to be a
lot, right? But it's in this hydraulic
response time creating a asymmetric aerodynamic control
during descent boosters flight computer compensates by
adjusting the remaining grid fins positions more
aggressively. So that's one of the reasons why
they have all those grid fins. If one is a failure, then the
other ones can take up the slack.
SpaceX thought of everything. It's redundancy, ma'am.
It was built like that on purpose.
Not only is it for the drag and to maneuver the rocket and the
the booster back end, but also in case one fails, the other
ones can. Pick up the slack, they thought
of everything. How low are Tesla's prices
dropping for the Model Y, and also what's driving these new
discounts? And is it worth holding out for
the updated Model Y known as Juniper?
Also, Cybertruck is seeing some price cuts just months after its
launch. Let's unpack these details and
explore what this means for Tesla, and, more importantly,
what it means for you, the customer.
Tesla is rolling out significant discounts on select Model Y
inventory vehicles in the United States, fueling interest among
buyers seeking lower prices for one of the most popular electric
vehicles on the market. The discounts arrive as Tesla
prepares to release the anticipated Juniper update to
the Model Y later this year. And the current discounts make
some Model Y configurations cheaper than ever, a move likely
intended to clear existing inventory before the updated
model debuts. Now, the model wise importance
to Tesla cannot be overstated. According to Kelley Blue Book,
the Model Y was the best selling electric vehicle in the United
States in 2024, far outpacing as competitors.
When combined with the Model 3, Tesla's two most accessible
vehicles accounted for over 40% of the US electric vehicle
market last year. Now the dominance has solidified
Tesla's leadership in the EV sector, but it's also created
challenges as competitors like Ford, Rivian, and Lucid Motors
continue to narrow this gap. Current discounts of the Model Y
inventory are particularly noteworthy for their pricing,
which in some cases brings the vehicles cost below $40,000.
This price includes the $7500 federal EV tax credit, which
applies to many Tesla models and, for example, a long range
all-wheel drive Model Y in Stealth Gray available through
Tesla's inventory. Page is listed at. $38,570
before taxes and fees is nearly $2000 less than the same model
order directly from Tesla's build to order system where it's
priced at $40,490.00. These inventory specific
discounts effectively reduce the cost of the all-wheel drive
Model Y to levels typically associated with Tesla's lower
priced rear wheel drive variant. Buyers looking for an all-wheel
drive Model Y which offers better handling and performance
may find this an attractive opportunity, especially with
Tesla Straightforward ordering online which makes the deals
really easy to spot. Go check them out right now at
tesla.com. Now, leasing options are also
more affordable for discounted Model Y inventory.
A standard lease for an all-wheel drive Model Y is
around $399 per month before taxes and fees.
However, discounts on inventory vehicles allow Tesla to offer
slightly reduced monthly payments, with some leases
dropping to about $10 less $385 per month.
But this may seem like a small difference, though.
Over a typical three-year lease term, it adds up to meaningful
savings for cost conscious customers.
Now. It's essential, however, for
potential buyers to understand that these discounts apply to
the current version of the Model Y, which Tesla first launched in
March of 2020. And while the vehicle remains a
top seller, it's no longer Tesla's newest design.
It's been updated. There's a Model Y called the
Juniper, which is announced earlier this month in China and
is expected to bring notable improvements when it arrives in
the United States, though the exact timing remains unclear.
The Juniper update is widely believed to include both
interior and exterior design enhancements, similar to the
changes Tesla made to the Model 3 in 2023.
And while many details remain speculative, analysts suggest
that the updated version will appeal primarily to returning
Tesla customers rather than first time buyers.
Many customers for the update will be returning Tesla owners.
This suggests that the discounts on the current Model Y are
likely aimed at enticing new customers into the Tesla
ecosystem before the refresh model arrives.
Now, beyond the Model 3, Tesla's also slashing prices on the
recently launched Cybertruck, the electric pickup that has
drawn equal parts fascination and criticism since its
unveiling. The Cybertruck, which first
rolled off production lines in late 2023, has faced numerous
challenges including delays, production bottlenecks and
criticisms of its unconventional design, and also its tow hitch
being ripped off on some YouTube videos.
Now, Tesla's website now lists discounts of up to $1600 on new
Cybertrucks configurations, bringing the starting price of
the vehicle to $72,000, and there are $72,890.00 and demo
units. Vehicles used for test drives or
display purposes are also seeing steep price reductions, with
discounts reaching as much as $3410 off.
Even with these markdowns, though, the Cyber Truck remains
far more expensive than initially promised.
Elon Musk said there was going to be around $40,000, but the
figures been abandoned and the production costs have soared.
So $80,000 ish is what you're going to get a cyber truck for,
so about double the price. So report suggests that Tesla is
grappling with significant production challenges at a Sciga
factory in Texas where the cyber truck is built.
And some Tesla employees have even been reassigned from the
cyber truck assembly line to focus on manufacturing the Model
Y, Tesla's top selling vehicle. It's important for the Model Y
to continue to grow in this, the biggest part of Tesla's bottom
line, especially as the company navigates increasing competition
in the coming years. Now, the cyber truck hasn't been
a smooth launch since. Since it launched, vehicle has
faced criticism for the exterior.
Of course, it's weird looking on the road is big, is bulky, it's
angular, and it's been prone to rust and spotting.
In December, Tesla recalled 70,000 Cyber Trucks due to
issues with the tire pressure monitor system, marking the 7th
recall for the sharp edged electric pickup.
And But despite these setbacks, the Cyber Truck remains a
cornerstone of the product lineup, even as its polarizing
design continues to divide public opinion.
Now, price wars within the EV market have added another layer
for Tesla. Legacy automakers Ford, General
Motors and Rivian also and Lucid, the new guys have been
aggressively competing on price to capture market share.
For Tesla, which is historically positioned itself as a premium
vehicle, these market dynamics have necessitated more frequent
price adjustments. This counts on the Y and the
cyber truck also raised questions about demand for
Tesla's vehicles. And while Tesla has consistently
ranked among the top selling EV brands, the company has faced
slowing sales growth in recent quarters, especially in regions
like China and Europe. And lists have speculated that
these price reductions may be a strategic response to waning
demand as Tesla seeks to maintain its competitive edge.
But for potential buyers, the question of whether to take
advantage of current discounts. Or wait for new.
Models remains central consideration right now.
While the current Model Y offers excellent value with its reduced
price, the upcoming Juniper update may sway some customers
to wait for the latest features and design improvements.
Meanwhile, the Cyber Trucks price cuts could make the pickup
a more attractive option for those willing to overlook its
design and production hiccups. It's a weird looking truck
compared to other vehicles on the road, but some people love
it, and Tesla's strategy will likely hinge on how well the
company can balance its existing product lineup with its plans
for innovation and expansion. The Model I and the Cyber Truck
are two different aspects of Tesla's approach.
The former is a proven volume seller and the letter as a bold
statement and an experiment that will redefined electric vehicles
for the future. Now if you want my take on this,
you can go to Discord. We have a Discord.
You can check it out in a link in the show notes.
But I'm going to give you a little taste here.
Let's talk about this in the Discord because we can have a
bigger conversation about this. I am a big fan of the Model.
Yi almost pulled the trigger out of Model Y just about six months
ago and I held off. I don't know why, but I held off
on it. I currently am looking into the
Juniper. I'm waiting for the Juniper to
come through and I've seen all the improvements to the Model Y
and I will pick up a Juniper when they launch.
It's going to be a great car for a family.
I have a family now and the the cyber truck, which we talked
about in this episode, not so great for me.
It's a big car. I have a small child, you know,
large vehicle, very impractical for that.
But it's a statement. It's a fashion piece, if you
will. You show up at any place with
that truck and people are going to look at you.
And I'm OK with that. But the Model Y seems to fit my
style a little bit more. I like a coupe and I like a
sedan, and the Model Y is. That's a great vehicle for the
price. If you get an older model
vehicle, Model Y, that's a great deal there right now.
So check out Tesla's website for any deals you can get.
Just keep checking back everyday.
They might post something new. And I know when I was looking
for mine, there were deals going on where I could have gotten
probably, I was, I think it's about 2500 to 3000 off when I
was going to buy mine and I just didn't pull the trigger.
I, I, there's something going on and I've heard about the
Juniper. I heard they were going to
refresh the Model Y. So I just had to, I waited a few
months and then by that time I was also going to pull the
trigger and I stopped and I stopped myself and I was like,
there's got something new is going to happen.
The refresh is going to happen. So I got to wait, I thought.
I thought it was either going. To be that or like the $25,000
test so that we've all been hearing about.
So I just held, I hold, hold, hold and then now the Juniper's
coming out. So that will be my next vehicle.
That's my plan. So if you want more information,
go to the Discord link in the description or show notes.
Also thank you so much for all the continued.
Support. There's.
Some subject matter in this episode that might not be OK for
some people. It's about Elon Musk and his
recent Nazi esque salutes and his arm movements, arm motions,
whatever you want to call them. That's what this episode is
about. So if you have a problem with
that, if it's going to make you upset, you don't need to listen
to this. There's there's not a lot going
on here reporting the news about Anti Defamation League and also
Tesla, some social media stuff and how the public's little bit
divided. So if that's going to offend
you, just, you know, just just take that into consideration
before you listen to this episode.
So Elon Musk was standing at a podium bearing the seal of the
United States president back on Monday.
And it was captured twice, raising his arm in a way that
some interpreted as resembling the Nazi salute.
This gesture, which is widely recognized as a symbol of heat
and historical atrocities, was called out by scholars,
journalists, and human rights organizations.
But despite the backlash, neither Musk nor his company,
Tesla, has faced any apparent financial repercussions for this
controversy. Musk responded to the
accusations with characteristic defiance, laughing off claims
that he intentionally made a salute like that.
He called the controversy dirty tricks and sarcastically thanked
the Anti Defamation League of the ADL for initially defending
him. The ADL had stated that the
gesture was likely just an awkward moment rather than an
intentional salute. However, the billionaire's
nonchalant dismissal of the criticism at a feud of the fire
for those already scrutinizing his associations with far right
ideologies. This isn't the first time that
Elon Musk has faced accusations of engaging with controversial
or extremist viewpoints. Musk has been under scrutiny for
what critics call a growing alignment with far right
circles. Notably, the publicity endorsed
Germany's hard right Alternative Fiora Deutschland Afd party
whose policies have been condemned by numerous human
rights organizations. Now on X, Musk has allowed the
proliferation of Nazi related and anti-Semitic content after
he took over and often amplifies such accounts or failed to
enforce moderation policies against them.
It's the free speech platform of course, so he's not going to
stop them doing what they do. And it one particularly
controversial incident, Musk replied to an anti-Semitic post
calling it the actual truth. Now, just so you know, I am anti
Nazi, Any sort of racism, any sort of Nazi, people can suck it
go away. But I wanted to let you all know
that we're going to talk about this stuff a little bit more.
And following backlash over this incident, Musk offered a public
apology, describing it as literally the worst and dumbest
post I've ever done. He subsequently visited
Auschwitz, a symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate contrition.
Yet critics argue that Musk's actions, including his dismissal
of concerns over the alleged Nazi salute, suggest a pattern
of courting controversy while showing limited accountability.
We all know Elon Musk is a troll.
But despite the public outrage and growing concern about Musk's
behavior, Tesla's financial performance remains unaffected
on Tuesday. Tesla's stock.
Closed virtually unchanged, signaling investors apparent
indifference to the controversy. They either just didn't see it
or they don't care. And analysts note that since
Donald Trump's election, Tesla shares have surged 65%,
outperforming competitors and the broader market.
Observer suggests that Musk's close ties to the Trump
administration may shield him from the potential fallout of
his divisive actions. The Musk's association with far
right ideologies has also drawn criticisms from within those
very circle Steve Bannon, a polarizing figure of all right
politics, is openly called Musk evil and demanded his removal
from the White House, where Musk holds an influential advisory
role. However, analysts suggest that
Musk's perceived ability to appeal to ban his base, whether
intensely or inadvertently, may insulate him from these attacks.
Now. The EDL, which initially
defended Musk after his gesture, later issued a sharp
condemnation. The organization criticized
Musk's decision to make jokes about Nazis on X, labeling his
remarks inappropriate and offensive.
They emphasize the unique historical and moral gravity of
the Holocaust, stating it is never acceptable to make light
of a singularly evil chapter in human history.
Now, social media platforms and communities have been quick to
react to Musk's actions. Reddit saw a surge in
conversations and debates about whether to limit A or ban links
to X. Several subreddits, including
our Christianity Our New Jersey, have already enacted bans on X
related content. This also includes our slash
Godzilla citing Musk's controversial gestures as a
tipping point, and moderators of other subreddits such as R slash
RVA and R slash NBA are actively discussing similar measures.
While some have opted to restrict X content by allowing
screenshots instead of direct links to reduce traffic to
Musk's platform. Now, one Reddit user wrote on
the R/D and D subreddit. Given Musk's actions on Monday,
it may be time to rethink how we engage with the platform.
The user went on to criticize Musk's history of amplifying
harmful rhetoric and interacting with accounts promoting Nasi
ideology and raising broader concerns about X's role in
spreading hate speech and extremism.
But not all Reddit users agree with the bans.
Some pointed out the perceived inconsistency in signaling out
of X while allowing content from platforms like Meta, which
recently ended its fact checking program, or True Social, a site
often associated with right wing misinformation.
However, others defended the bans, arguing the collective
action was one of the few tools left for communities to take a
stand against harmful behavior. Tech CE OS Reddit, for its part,
allows subreddit moderators significant autonomy and setting
and enforcing their rules. Platform does not have a blanket
policy on banning links to specific websites, leaving
decisions up to individual subreddit communities.
Now this decentralized moderation system, according to
Derek Powersack, author of Designed for Community, is one
of the few remaining examples of collective online action.
In a Blue Sky post, he said Reddit's structure actually
gives moderators a bit of power, which is increasingly rare in
online spaces. And while Musk's defenders
argued that his gestures and online behavior are being
exaggerated or misinterpreted, critics view them as part of a
broader pattern of behavior that normalizes hate and
anti-Semitism. Video clips of Musk's alleged
salute have been widely shared on social media on every
platform, often juxtaposed with images of neo Nazis performing
identical gestures, including Hitler.
And for many, this visual comparison leaves little room
for doubt about the seriousness of the accusations.
Despite the criticism, though, Musk dominance in technology,
social media, and business remains largely intact.
And unaffected, his ability to retain public support and
investor confidence in Tesla shows that he has a unique
position as both a polarizing and influential figure.
When it comes down to it, people that are investing in companies,
they want to make money and there might not be a moral
threshold for some people. Some, and I'm just speaking from
direct experience with some people that have invested with
Tesla, some people have taken out some of their money, but
also you have to think somebody else is going to buy that stock
anyway. So why would you do that?
Why wouldn't you just make the money?
So those are some questions you have to think about, like, do
you want to support this guy and until you know exactly what he
was thinking or are you going to have a knee jerk reaction, pull
all your money out, lose a bunch of money that you and your
family could use. That's where some people are
coming from. So just think about that too.
And when making these decisions. Now Tesla, well, it's bolstered
by its market performance, shows no signs of losing momentum,
though it's going up, up, up, even as these controversies
surrounding Elon continue to pile up.
Now he has ties to Donald Trump, and his apparent appeal to right
wing factions pose critical questions about the role of tech
leaders and CE OS and shaping public discourse.
He has a lot of power. For now, Musk remains defiant,
brushing off backlash while continuing to consolidate his
influence across industries and political lines.
So Musk's gestures, the Nazi salute, social media policies
and political alliances show that there's a deepening divide
between his critics and his supporters.
Though whether this divided will eventually impact Musk's public
standing, his financial empire or political ambitions remain
uncertain. And everybody has to make their
own choice. So you know, before you invest,
make sure you know who the leaders of the companies are
that you're investing. In.
It's important, you know, work with your work, with your
morals. Here, if you're going to invest
in something, so that's up to you.
Whatever your morals are, I'm not here to tell you right or
wrong. But some people, they pulled
out, some people they put money in.
It's up to them now if you've been listening to the show.
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