The quality of this channel is simply amazing. Every upload feels like a unique experience. Thank you for giving free education to everyone. You are heroes
@@CoolWorldsLab any way you can tell me the name of the track in the outro? The final track in the video? I tried all the tracks you listed in the credits but can’t seem to find it and I’m dying to know. It sounds like something from interstellar soundtrack but I tried that and some tracks sound familiar but not the exact one, idk. If you can help I would be grateful I’m a huge fan of your work on this channel. Thx!
I do admire the philosophy of learning through mistakes and trial by error. I remember so many people sneering and laughing whenever one of the SpaceX vehicles blew up. I think it says a lot about them and their mindset that they view failure as something to be ridiculed, and not something to be learned from.
While I agree that there is nothing wrong with learning through failure, this doesn't mean thar elon has a better philosophy. The difference is that his inherited wealth makes it so that he can afford mistakes and just eyeball it, whereas nasa's budget is constantly being cut year after year.
I think the goal is great, however a hoarding, exploiting, ridiculous billionaire narcissist like Elon is what most despise. Nasa, would have a robust budget if we all decided economics together rather than the capitalist minority. Some literally pay a few percent of their extreme wealth in taxes, yet build their wealth off the infrastructure we ALL pay for. It's disgusting
@@Mkenran Space X spent roughly $3 Billion last year while NASA’s budget was nearly $25 Billion. Space X can afford destructive prototyping not because they have more funds, but because they’re not directly paid for by taxes. The perception of failure harms government organizations because we the people don’t like to see billions of our dollars burn up in orbit. So NASA is forced to run decades of simulations so that every test flight does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Space X can aim wide, miss wide, but still collect the data and incorporate updates in the next rocket without backlash. It seems advances in rocket technology have benefitted from rapid prototyping and testing.
@@MkenranI think NASA has like gotten 100 times more money the past 10 years than Elon has put into SpaceX? He makes things quick and cheaply that's how he can afford the mistakes.
Regarding aluminium as an alternative to steel, without going into the heat resistance advantages of steel, it should be pointed out that aluminium generally has a similar strength/weight ratio as steel. To resist a given force, you need a smaller steel cross-section than you do aluminium, but both will weigh about the same. So weight is rarely a sufficient reason to choose aluminium over steel.
A major benefit though of aluminum is that it doesn't embrittle at very cold temperatures. Not to say alloys of steel couldn't be made to do the same (I don't know either way)
From everything I've ever read, Aluminum and steel do not have the same strength to weight ratio. Aluminum has a better strength to weight ratio. Can you explain you comment briefly? What am I missing?
I've been really impressed by your channel over the years, I think your combination of the highest quality production value with the highest with high academic rigor and authority fills a key role in this area of space communication.
I was just hanging out in Brownsville, Tx and went out to Boca Chica for reasons unrelated to SpaceX. It's really neat and worth checking out if you're into this stuff. Not only is the surrounding area absolutely beautiful but the area around the facilities is remarkably chill. You can walk right up to the launch area and get a good look at the whole starship project.
The factory is very easy to watch. Everything is out in the open and visible. Musk even gives tours every now and then and people fly drones and planes above the factory. Its the most public rocket development program ever. I think its great
Dude, I dream of watching a heavy launch with my boy, at night. I was in 2nd grade with my entire school when Challenger was lost. The shuttle was comprised by design from the beginning and solid booster's with no escape system is insane. Government needs to get out of the way, please.
One of many things I love about this channel is how it holds your attention to the very end. I have two screens so I can watch one while looking for something else to watch. Half way through the video, I realized I have stop looking until this one is done. Amazing stuff every time.
There will be failures, some of them possibly spectacular. I think that is inevitable. But I truly hope that heart is not lost, that the course is held. This program is a part of a tipping point, I believe, in regards to our exploration and expansion into the solar system. In a hundred years people could be looking back at this period and say, “This is when it all changed.” I am so excited for this.
Outstanding as ever, I wish you were my teacher when I was in school. You have this way of delivering the subject, with clarity. You should get into full on documentary making; I think we have a David Attenborough in the making. You just have this way of explaining things, with a calm and easy to understand voice. Keep up the excellent work, I always like what you produce; and are always looking forward to your next video.
@@khaccanhle1930 i understand why you said that about David Attenborough, however I want to believe that because of his age, he holds some outdated views that white people from his generation grew up believing, and its one of those things that takes a younger, newer generation to crush that "trope" ... But I dont think that people like him who say that "overpopulation" automatically means populations from african and south east asian countries that cause climate change, obviously there is some truth to the fact that overpopulation does stress the "natural environment" and maybe because he is so "close" to nature all the time, its hard for him to see how that viewpoint has racist undertones.. i dunno. I heard my mother say that shit once, but shes an Obama simp and hates Trump + MAGA. She's just an old white german lady who is too old to see that this is a bad take. But i know she's not a racist or fascist. Its unfortunate when someone with a large platform like DA uses it to spread that old trope .
@@raidermaxx2324i agree about the over populated plant but not about eugenics but that aside David Attenborough is simply the best documentary maker this planet has seen or will see
Starship switched to using an inhouse formulated steel 304X, which is close to 304L but modified to have even better properties for Starship's intended use.
Yes the script is so well worded to explain everything clearly. I think it's OK to have your head in the clouds and your imagination among the stars as long as your feet are firmly on the ground - being "down-to-earth", "up in the air" and "too heavenly-minded" all at the same time!
Not at all. Common sense skeptic and thunderf00t are much more grounded when it comes to this stuff. This channel is great with astrophysics explainers but falls extremely flat when it comes to engineering, economics, and techno futurism.
Gigantic telescopes are great no doubt, but you're right, the idea of landing deep-drilling rigs on other planets/moons really does it for me too. Seriously valuable "clues" down there that can't be picked up any other way.
Your channel and Isaac Arthur’s are my favorite channels for dreaming about where I saw myself when I was a teen. In a rocket or in an O’Neil cylinder heading off to another world in another solar system. I know it won’t happen in my life, but I’m excited that it’s happening and maybe one of my grandchildren will be one of those intrepid explorers. Dr Becky is great too...
Isaacs Arthur's superficial Dan Dare comic fantasies are too far out for me. Cool Worlds visions & contributions revolve around the art of the possible, this Century - & I prefer reality.
If Spacex did not push the limits of what can be done now, would they be where they are now? Isaac Arthour's videos indicate the sorts of things that could be done if people ever put their minds to it. Cool Worlds is one of my favorite channels.
@@mikeharrington5593 Some people are afraid to dream big. Don’t worry, it won’t cost you anything. You can still dream your macabre nightmares about climate change.
@@mikeharrington5593 I actually like that Isaac Arthur tries to flesh out all the future concepts of space exploration. It's his presentation style and lack of clarity (unnecessarily long sentences) that i struggle with. It's not always clear which part of the sentence relates to which point because it gets mushed together. If his style has evolved in recent times though let me know! Oh, and his humility irks me a little, often painting himself as the authority on topics, even though he is brushing on the topics explored by others at expert levels.
This channel is absolutely phenomenal, you guys should be so proud of what you produce. Every single time I watch your videos I get so happy and hopeful about the future
Last year, MIT Technology Review published an article entitled “How SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket might unlock the solar system-and beyond”. This article included a concept for a Neptune orbiter and a Triton lander. The Neptune orbiter would include a telescope for studying KBOs.
Radio astronomy would be revolutionary if we can set up radio antennas in craters on the dark side of the moon shielded from EM emissions from Earth and manned by a nearby ground station.
you do realize it would take starship 18 years to get to just Neptune and 8-9 for Jupiter, right? whatever you musk fans are smoking i want some? or maybe not lol.
@@ct1762 who said starship would be flying the mission all the way to Neptune? It would be much more efficient to use a series of launches to put the rocket and fuel into orbit and then travel without throwing away heavy, reusable, single stage rockets. Interplanetary spacecraft can have much higher exit velocities for their fuel (due to not needing high impulse) and can therefore reach greater speeds. It's basic rocket science. Even in your hypothetical it's not like we have a time limit either. It's not like Neptune is going anywhere
@@solsystem1342 yeah i dont think a few thousand miles an hr faster is going to make a difference when Musk hasn't even remotely worked out how to keep people alive for more than a month.
These videos never disappoint. I watch them every night and I’ve probably watched some of them 20 times. Please keep them coming and thank you for teaching us all so much, Dr. Kipping!
BFR stood for Big Fu_king Rocket, the Falcon was tossed in later to appease the mentally frail...in any case it wasn't a permanent label from the beginning.
So glad I found your channel, thank you for talking slowly, not rushing through explanations and not treating your audience as if we are all astronomers/engineers/physicists.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos! They are well thought out, properly edited, and always made using carefully chosen and compelling stock footage. Your narration is also first class, and very natural. They are informative and just a joy to watch. Thank you, for your time and effort in making these fine videos.
I need to thank you for all the videos on your channel. I follow the channel and find it really engaging and often recommend it to friends. This video on Starship explains the "raison d'être" far better than even the people behind the project do themselves.
Well that was an unexpected intersection of my interests on UA-cam 😁 Thanks for talking about Starship from an astronomers perspective. I've been following Starship from the beginning, yet I learned a lot from this inspiring video.
@@uncannyvalley2350 There is no such thing as "Elon's Hyperloop". Turns out that *very good* mass produced is better than perfection that doesn't actually exist, hence Tesla selling cars like hotcakes.
I think we all know what Elon wanted to call the rocket back in 2005 when he named it the BFR. Falcon is a great substitute though. Yet another cool video btw
Always love the optimistic approach and perspective offered in your videos. Keep up the good work and keep us getting more excited for whats coming. Hope one day I can witness the launch of the cool world special purpose satellite with starship😁
Crazy seeing Cool Worlds Labs having nearly 550k subs! I remember them hitting 50k. Lol. The videos are always EXTREMELY informative! Especially about exomoons.
@@CoolWorldsLab I can only imagine! Thank you for all the knowledge you've blessed our brain cavities with, here's to 500k+ more subscribed interests! -Cheers 🍻
I always thought telescope constellations were a good idea if we had the tech to stabilize/synchronize them. Could easily get space telescopes with an effective size of many MANY kilometers.
You are thinking on the smaller scale. With millions upon millions of individual reflective satellites (using large, thin aluminium foils as mirrors) arranged to form a mirror as wide as a continent, we can view exoplanets in 1080p.
@@kerbodynamicx472 Just being as realistic as possible without going too star trek. A constellation of dozens being 'relatively' close together is more feasible than trying to synchronize and focus millions :)
rarely indeed! I would say never for any technology that is being developed. it wouldn't surprise me if he underestimate the cost of starship not by a factor of 10 but 100
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Thank you for yet another insightful video and also for motivating your audience for getting out of the comfort zone and trying newer things.
i hope that too :). i wanna see a real spaceship... iss is a joke. the fact we arent (atm) able to get like the iss in one piece to the space... for a real spaceship we need like 20-30 fully iss stations to combine that to a spaceship in my opinion
All we need to make this work is a Retro Encabulator device which uses six hydrocoptic marzel vanes and an ambifacient lunar wane shaft to prevent unwanted side fumbling
I've actually never heard of this project before. Now that I have, I am excited. So very much. To be alive during the age where such things like this are being developed. Astronomy is something that I have always been interested in. It brings me joy. Thank you so very much for making videos.
Starship? It is exciting!! Every Saturday morning (US time) Marcus House covers everything that happened at Starbase that week, right here on You Tube. ua-cam.com/users/MarcusHouse
@@Scone_Biscuit Huh. Well, you should look into it more. There are so many channels that talk about it on a daily basis. As someone quite interested in space exploration, astronomy, and the like, this is a very well known project, not without good reason.
@@xiphactinusaudax1045 Well then. I guess I am that one guy living under a rock. Rip. Tbf, the only space channels I actually care to click into are this and Anton Petrov. It does make me excited though. I wonder what developments and discoveries would have been made if it wasn't for the budget choke astronomers have been dealing with since forever.
Informative and inspiring as always, thank you :) There's so much said here that wonderfully ignores the "what ifs" of today and focus more on what we actually could do with a system like this. It's not about a company doing stuff, it's about what we as humans can accomplish when we just try.
I don’t deny that SpaceX’s engineers have achieved some impressive things, but I wasn’t expecting this seemingly negative take on NASA and their approach to safe space flight.
There's another way Starship can reduce the total cost of getting observatories to space. By loosening constraints on weight and volume, the designers of those observatories aren't forced to use hyper-custom, hyper-miniaturized components, which are wildly expensive. Cost-to-orbit isn't the only barrier to access that's being lowered, it's also cost to design and fabricate.
I absolutely love your videos. Starship is so exciting, and I'm glad to hear the Cool Worlds take on it. We can learn so much from that innovative approach that will impact humanity in countless ways.
I just have to say that I had been struck by sleep paralysis as I was listening to your video while trying to fall asleep. At first I was still able to follow what you're saying, but as I tried to fight back my paralysis, you turned into an alien voice before returning to normal as I was jolted fully awake.
A vessel of this size could also launch thousands of, for example, 4 inch reflector telescopes each the size of a cubesat working in visible light. These could then be public telescopes in space where amateur astronomers and Joe public could be controlling and observing on their desktop at home for a small fee perhaps beginning at 30 minutes going to 24 hours for example. Where to place them, what their life would be and how to dispose of them when life expired are some of the questions that clearly would need answering. Not to mention attitude control, attitude control parameters, power usage and so on. But it could be done, I'm sure. The more I think about it, the more I think it's viable at some point in the not so distant future.
I imagine some, maybe most, countries would be antsy about easily controllable private satellites. But otherwise your idea would be wonderful for amateur astronomy.
I had a somewhat similar idea for having a large collection of relatively small cheap telescopes, with mirrors more in the range of 1m. That could then share data like they do with the event horizons project. The one fatal flaw of the plan is the data sharing aspect, not sure how one would do that cheaply with current technology, but if that hurdle is overcome in the future. We could have a space telescope with a collection aperture larger then our own planet, and the more telescopes there are the higher resolution we'd get. Getting the price point relatively low for every part of the satellites would be essential as a dozen of them wouldn't be able to offer anything better then what event horizons is already doing. But a few hundred would be mind blowing levels of detail.
I had the same idea .. except to piggy back them on starlink satellites .. that's 42,000 satellites in that constellation. would also help keep the astronomers that are complaining about the satellites obstructing their view happy.
Seeing the progress in the last years just by SpaceX really shows where we couldve been if NASAs budget wouldnt have been cut so drastically in the 70s.
Awesome dude, you made me breath deep again dreaming about see some of this within my lifetime. I´m 52 and so far I don´t seeing more people such as Elon. Not a fan but I undestand curiosity and risks. Love the pace of your products. Keep pushing the concept.
Man. Every time I watch one of your videos, I feel the need to subscribe to your channel, only to realize I already did. Phenomenal work, I'm so glad I found your channel.
I'm so happy that I am alive during this time. To witness the evolution of our future. Bad or good....to witness whatever this leads to is just amazing.
I love your channel and I’m so flipping invested in spacex and starship. I’ve been watching daily updates on it since the very beginning. Very excited to watch your video. The more coverage starship gets the better! Now if everyone can go knock on the FAAs front door…
15:20 A note here, not only do I think this estimate is too low by a factor of ten, Musk has a history in exaggerating. He said a very similar thing about Falcon 9 and that still costs 60mio + as well, I doubt Starship will ever drop bellow 100mio per launch (which would already be a huge achievement anyway). Also, its not that NASA is itself incapable of doing it for cheaper or finishing projects quicker, NASA is severely restricted by politics. The rocket parts need to be sourced from all states so every politician can go hoke and say they brought some business to their state, obviously this makes everything way more complicated and more expensive. Similarly NASAs budget allocation changes under every administration, so they constantly have to shift focus all over the place. Almost the same thing is true for ESA except that you need to replace states with member nations.
This man is a poet along with every other talent he is great at writing, filming, producing, and I'm sure the list is much longer. Kudos to you sir, love your wonderful English accent too!
@@Jan12700 The key to achieving his Mars goals is SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket: The stainless steel vehicle that the company is developing with the goal of launching cargo and as many as 100 people at a time.Dec 1, 2020
While it's nice to hope that SpaceX comes through on their claims, it's prudent to remember that Musk generally just says random numbers and goals that sound unachievable, because they actually are.
@@CoolWorldsLab however, there are some doubts, that "reusability" makes launches cheaper. In order to get breakeven point reusable rocket must have launches constantly, but there is no such demand on the market. SpaceX can't find a client for Falcon Heavy, hardly finds clients launches for Falcon9 - substituting them with another ponzi-alike venture - Starlink. It is hardly understandable, is there any client, which needs to launch 150 tons to the LEO. So far, Starship's reusability is dead by arrival, except of Starlink launches. Knowing Musk's business style by example of Solar City, there is considerations that SpaceX cannot reach breakeven point, compensating it with flow from investors and venture foundations.
@@CoolWorldsLab Reusable rockets aren’t exactly new, it was somewhat successfully experimented with in the 90s. Was no commercial need for it, so the project shut down. I have my doubts about the realism in Space X/Musk’s vision and timelines. I think he is hyping things up to get whatever support he needs in order to keep rolling. The man said they would launch humans to Mars in 2024, but it sure doesn’t look that way now. He recently readjusted it to 2029. This is a common theme for Musks wild claims. Proof is in the pudding, until then it’s all just talk - and Musk loves to talk.
@@Immanatum if has wasn’t being held back by the government starship would be much further along. They’re holding him back because he’s making everyone look bad. Once Starlink is finished he’ll destroy the high speed internet market and he’ll fund whatever he feels like. He’ll probably be the first Trillionaire.
Thank you, that was one of best videos I have seen, excellent production values, every photo and video clip was on point, the music didn't distract or annoy me. Editing was seamless. The voice of radio star and the face of a leading man. This was my 1st video and I'm already hooked. Thanks! Keep up the excellent work, now I'm going to select my 2nd video.
What a great video on the awesome capabilities and possibilities of Starship! I absolutely love your channel. This UA-cam channel and Isaac Arthur's channel are my absolute favorite UA-cam destinations!! Keep up the great work - Thanks so much for this great video!
Dr. Kipping i highly recommend that you train your skeptical eye on Mr. musk and his claims re: starship. There's an entire channel dedicated to debunking his nonsense. Called "common sense skeptic." Just evaluate his claims and do the math yourself. This is your duty as a scientist
Indeed and well said, I saw part of a video from this channel and was considering subscribing. But I thought "let me just see what other content they have" and here I find this nonsense! Suffice to say, I most certainly wouldn't be subscribing to such ignorant dumb garbage!
@@corinm6567except, it did. Because Musk does often make promises he doesn't keep. Just look at the cyber truck. He built an "off road truck" that breaks if it gets wet. Whenever Musk actually involves himself in a product, the product often suffers and the results are almost never what he'd promised.
Thank you for your channel. I have learned so much since subscribing. Interesting now that starship has had its first flight. The success/failure of the first flight shows there are many obstacles ahead, time will have to be spent on re-designing a viable launch pad/system, and increasing the reliability of the raptor engines, which I think has quite a way to go. However, those of us who have followed SpaceX’s failures and successes over the years have no doubt that they will ultimately solve these problems and give us this launch capability in the very near future. Please keep these videos coming.
Thank you so much for your duty to humanity sir. Absolutely love both your videos and your way of thinking. It always shows the beauty of life and reminds us to always keep smiling. Thank you.
Not hard to imagine now that building a base on the Moon with low gravity, with the use of Starship hauling materials to start building a Moon base and a space station, could very well be on the cards.
Terrascope. My grownup self heard this and thought it to be very clever. My inner 12 year old, however, heard this as Engrish and thought it hilarious.
I don't believe those much more cheaper costs, but I like we explore space more. Anyways I like how David holds on to the truth a lot and with your expertise you can help anyone interested. Keep up the good work.
So uplifting. I watch this channel as an antidepressant. In the face of a world which seems to have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory we could be years ahead now if we hadn't wasted our treasure.
I would love to see you do an interview with Lex Fridman one day, if you ever get the opportunity. I feel like you would get along great and he would have some interesting questions for you.
I'm glad that we delayed the manned Mars until today instead of doing it in the 80s and 90s. We could actually afford to stay instead of doing a repeat of the Apollo program. Not only that but it seems like we're distancing ourselves from US federal budget so even if the Feds were to stop 100 percent funding the Mars missions the private industry would likely keep the colonial operations going.
Your channel is really really good. I am not from science background, I am studying economics but i have interest in science and your way of explaining things is so simple that even I can understand it. Loads of love, keep up the good work!
It is such a shame that most of the money SpaceX saves NASA continues to be handed over to Boeing, SLS, and Blue Origin for their poorly managed projects that simply do not work for various reasons. SpaceX should be paid the same per seat as Boeing to perform the same work - i.e. Crew Dragon vs Starliner. The extra profits to SpaceX would find numerous uses to speed its various R&D projects.
That's not how NASA's budget works. The money for SLS is allocated by Congress, it can't be used for anything else. As for Blue Origin, etc, part of NASA's job is to get multiple companies working on multiple options. As for Starliner; the key part to understand is, Boeing and SpaceX weren't paid to provide the same work. The Commercial Crew Program is designed to provide seats to the ISS in a similar manner, yes, but it's also designed to have that done by two providers. SpaceX was paid to develop a spacecraft, building on the knowledge gained from the cargo craft it was already launching. Boeing was paid to essentially start from scratch. Crew Dragon is a very different craft than Cargo Dragon, but it wasn't starting from scratch. SpaceX's bid price was based on their expectation that the rocket's cost would be partially recouped by reusing it. Boeing's bid price was based on them knowing they had to use an expendable Atlas.
Not sad..FPS mars problem using retro thrusts and the JWST....ffs I am tired of Spacex fanbois making this a false dictonomy. Agree with the other private organizations tho.
I would be more caucious with Musk´s promises. After all there have been many failed ones in the past. After looking at their progress with hyperloop, tesla truck, teslabot and so on... I have much more confidence in SLS with its cost 23B.
He’s a billionaire because of his abilities and contributions, not inheritance. If NASA could do this, they would have already. The people of NASA probably have the ability to build one, but not with a bureaucratic organization such as NASA.
"JWST notoriously had 344 single points of failure at launch" ... none of it failing. Which demonstrates the high qualifications of NASA and ESA engineers. Compared to SpaceX, aaaaaa, any news about the Starship after its launch failure? Imagine that the JWST was in that rocket. Seriously, imagine that JWST was in THAT rocket.
Promises require delivery. So far, EM has delivered remarkably little in this field of any true weight. Science fiction promises, test footage, and a lot of CGI publicity videos that look like they've fallen off a Star Trek episode. And that's pretty much it. Everything is always, perpetually, two years away. Hmm... Some folks have applied real numbers and tech requirements to Musk's claims and have found that nothing adds up. Well, we'll see... but we need to see fairly quickly otherwise we're into PT Barnum and emporar's new clothes territory.
@@shou635 nice try elon but it's obvious when you use one of your alt accounts because it's unrealistic that anyone would ever praise you for anything ever
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The quality of this channel is simply amazing. Every upload feels like a unique experience. Thank you for giving free education to everyone. You are heroes
Thank-you so for those kind words!
Sooo true! I love this channel!
Heroes? Educators. Enlightening individuals. Heroes. I’m. It sure
This is the best comment ever placed on this channel. Perfectly sums up Cool Worlds passion. Humans are awesome!
@@CoolWorldsLab any way you can tell me the name of the track in the outro? The final track in the video? I tried all the tracks you listed in the credits but can’t seem to find it and I’m dying to know. It sounds like something from interstellar soundtrack but I tried that and some tracks sound familiar but not the exact one, idk. If you can help I would be grateful I’m a huge fan of your work on this channel. Thx!
I do admire the philosophy of learning through mistakes and trial by error. I remember so many people sneering and laughing whenever one of the SpaceX vehicles blew up. I think it says a lot about them and their mindset that they view failure as something to be ridiculed, and not something to be learned from.
While I agree that there is nothing wrong with learning through failure, this doesn't mean thar elon has a better philosophy. The difference is that his inherited wealth makes it so that he can afford mistakes and just eyeball it, whereas nasa's budget is constantly being cut year after year.
I think the goal is great, however a hoarding, exploiting, ridiculous billionaire narcissist like Elon is what most despise. Nasa, would have a robust budget if we all decided economics together rather than the capitalist minority. Some literally pay a few percent of their extreme wealth in taxes, yet build their wealth off the infrastructure we ALL pay for. It's disgusting
@@Mkenran Space X spent roughly $3 Billion last year while NASA’s budget was nearly $25 Billion.
Space X can afford destructive prototyping not because they have more funds, but because they’re not directly paid for by taxes. The perception of failure harms government organizations because we the people don’t like to see billions of our dollars burn up in orbit. So NASA is forced to run decades of simulations so that every test flight does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Space X can aim wide, miss wide, but still collect the data and incorporate updates in the next rocket without backlash.
It seems advances in rocket technology have benefitted from rapid prototyping and testing.
@@MkenranI think NASA has like gotten 100 times more money the past 10 years than Elon has put into SpaceX?
He makes things quick and cheaply that's how he can afford the mistakes.
@@MkenranWrong. Elon made space and electric cars profitable.
Regarding aluminium as an alternative to steel, without going into the heat resistance advantages of steel, it should be pointed out that aluminium generally has a similar strength/weight ratio as steel. To resist a given force, you need a smaller steel cross-section than you do aluminium, but both will weigh about the same. So weight is rarely a sufficient reason to choose aluminium over steel.
That's a good point
Is it because aluminium is cheaper? I guess that would have been a better choice when rockets were disposable.
alu will be the lighter for the same construction load, but it wont be more heat resistant. theres a reason they have space grade stainless
A major benefit though of aluminum is that it doesn't embrittle at very cold temperatures. Not to say alloys of steel couldn't be made to do the same (I don't know either way)
From everything I've ever read, Aluminum and steel do not have the same strength to weight ratio. Aluminum has a better strength to weight ratio. Can you explain you comment briefly? What am I missing?
I've been really impressed by your channel over the years, I think your combination of the highest quality production value with the highest with high academic rigor and authority fills a key role in this area of space communication.
I was just hanging out in Brownsville, Tx and went out to Boca Chica for reasons unrelated to SpaceX. It's really neat and worth checking out if you're into this stuff. Not only is the surrounding area absolutely beautiful but the area around the facilities is remarkably chill. You can walk right up to the launch area and get a good look at the whole starship project.
The factory is very easy to watch. Everything is out in the open and visible. Musk even gives tours every now and then and people fly drones and planes above the factory. Its the most public rocket development program ever. I think its great
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Dude, I dream of watching a heavy launch with my boy, at night. I was in 2nd grade with my entire school when Challenger was lost. The shuttle was comprised by design from the beginning and solid booster's with no escape system is insane. Government needs to get out of the way, please.
@@tonywhite8162 Sure but don't forget that Musk has led all this using previous govt work/infrastructure as a basis and source of talent, etc., etc..
One of many things I love about this channel is how it holds your attention to the very end. I have two screens so I can watch one while looking for something else to watch. Half way through the video, I realized I have stop looking until this one is done. Amazing stuff every time.
That sounds like you’re an addict
@@aidanflynn2037 Yep! My legal drug of choice.
There will be failures, some of them possibly spectacular. I think that is inevitable. But I truly hope that heart is not lost, that the course is held. This program is a part of a tipping point, I believe, in regards to our exploration and expansion into the solar system. In a hundred years people could be looking back at this period and say, “This is when it all changed.” I am so excited for this.
Henry won the war you see but not with head or sword, he did it with a little thing that they call a Ford.
History rhymes
@@NoticerOfficial oh god now it's become an AI. 😷
@@Naptosis correct. I am now an Autism indicator.
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@Miller 1983 Please talk to your doctor.
Outstanding as ever, I wish you were my teacher when I was in school. You have this way of delivering the subject, with clarity. You should get into full on documentary making; I think we have a David Attenborough in the making. You just have this way of explaining things, with a calm and easy to understand voice. Keep up the excellent work, I always like what you produce; and are always looking forward to your next video.
Hopefully, he doesn't hold the same "anti-human, eugenics, depopulation" ideology as Sir D.A.
@@khaccanhle1930 i understand why you said that about David Attenborough, however I want to believe that because of his age, he holds some outdated views that white people from his generation grew up believing, and its one of those things that takes a younger, newer generation to crush that "trope" ... But I dont think that people like him who say that "overpopulation" automatically means populations from african and south east asian countries that cause climate change, obviously there is some truth to the fact that overpopulation does stress the "natural environment" and maybe because he is so "close" to nature all the time, its hard for him to see how that viewpoint has racist undertones.. i dunno. I heard my mother say that shit once, but shes an Obama simp and hates Trump + MAGA. She's just an old white german lady who is too old to see that this is a bad take. But i know she's not a racist or fascist. Its unfortunate when someone with a large platform like DA uses it to spread that old trope .
@@raidermaxx2324i agree about the over populated plant but not about eugenics but that aside David Attenborough is simply the best documentary maker this planet has seen or will see
Starship switched to using an inhouse formulated steel 304X, which is close to 304L but modified to have even better properties for Starship's intended use.
Thanks I knew they were developing an in house formulation but wasn’t able to find whether it was in production yet
The audio quality of this production is amazing.... different scenes, consistent audio... Great job.
This is the most grounded channel for dealing with subjects that are out of this world. Bringing us a cool, calm, concise clarification of the cosmos.
Astrum is up there too.
Yes the script is so well worded to explain everything clearly.
I think it's OK to have your head in the clouds and your imagination among the stars as long as your feet are firmly on the ground - being "down-to-earth", "up in the air" and "too heavenly-minded" all at the same time!
@@MichaelGarland i love Astrums channel too. A nice calm relaxing voice. with a simple script. SEA is another good space related channel
@Miller 1983 damn wtf have you been smoking....
may I have some please?
Not at all. Common sense skeptic and thunderf00t are much more grounded when it comes to this stuff. This channel is great with astrophysics explainers but falls extremely flat when it comes to engineering, economics, and techno futurism.
Gigantic telescopes are great no doubt, but you're right, the idea of landing deep-drilling rigs on other planets/moons really does it for me too. Seriously valuable "clues" down there that can't be picked up any other way.
Your channel and Isaac Arthur’s are my favorite channels for dreaming about where I saw myself when I was a teen. In a rocket or in an O’Neil cylinder heading off to another world in another solar system.
I know it won’t happen in my life, but I’m excited that it’s happening and maybe one of my grandchildren will be one of those intrepid explorers.
Dr Becky is great too...
@@NatureDoublethink Beat me to it!
Isaacs Arthur's superficial Dan Dare comic fantasies are too far out for me. Cool Worlds visions & contributions revolve around the art of the possible, this Century - & I prefer reality.
If Spacex did not push the limits of what can be done now, would they be where they are now?
Isaac Arthour's videos indicate the sorts of things that could be done if people ever put their minds to it.
Cool Worlds is one of my favorite channels.
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Some people are afraid to dream big. Don’t worry, it won’t cost you anything. You can still dream your macabre nightmares about climate change.
@@mikeharrington5593 I actually like that Isaac Arthur tries to flesh out all the future concepts of space exploration. It's his presentation style and lack of clarity (unnecessarily long sentences) that i struggle with. It's not always clear which part of the sentence relates to which point because it gets mushed together. If his style has evolved in recent times though let me know! Oh, and his humility irks me a little, often painting himself as the authority on topics, even though he is brushing on the topics explored by others at expert levels.
Fun fact: saying "JWST" takes the same number of syllables as "James Webb Space Telescope"
This channel is absolutely phenomenal, you guys should be so proud of what you produce. Every single time I watch your videos I get so happy and hopeful about the future
Last year, MIT Technology Review published an article entitled “How SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket might unlock the solar system-and beyond”. This article included a concept for a Neptune orbiter and a Triton lander. The Neptune orbiter would include a telescope for studying KBOs.
Radio astronomy would be revolutionary if we can set up radio antennas in craters on the dark side of the moon shielded from EM emissions from Earth and manned by a nearby ground station.
you do realize it would take starship 18 years to get to just Neptune and 8-9 for Jupiter, right? whatever you musk fans are smoking i want some? or maybe not lol.
@@ct1762 Care to give a source for that? Or just your reasoning for how you got to that conclusion?
@@ct1762 who said starship would be flying the mission all the way to Neptune? It would be much more efficient to use a series of launches to put the rocket and fuel into orbit and then travel without throwing away heavy, reusable, single stage rockets. Interplanetary spacecraft can have much higher exit velocities for their fuel (due to not needing high impulse) and can therefore reach greater speeds. It's basic rocket science.
Even in your hypothetical it's not like we have a time limit either. It's not like Neptune is going anywhere
@@solsystem1342 yeah i dont think a few thousand miles an hr faster is going to make a difference when Musk hasn't even remotely worked out how to keep people alive for more than a month.
These videos never disappoint. I watch them every night and I’ve probably watched some of them 20 times. Please keep them coming and thank you for teaching us all so much, Dr. Kipping!
I watch Journey to the end of the universe all the time
@@chompchompnomnom4256 same. I love all of the longer videos.
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BFR stood for Big Fu_king Rocket, the Falcon was tossed in later to appease the mentally frail...in any case it wasn't a permanent label from the beginning.
So glad I found your channel, thank you for talking slowly, not rushing through explanations and not treating your audience as if we are all astronomers/engineers/physicists.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos! They are well thought out, properly edited, and always made using carefully chosen and compelling stock footage. Your narration is also first class, and very natural. They are informative and just a joy to watch. Thank you, for your time and effort in making these fine videos.
Thanks, it's the little details that come together for great content!
I was going to comment something along these lines, but you've said it all. Just beautiful presentation, here.
I need to thank you for all the videos on your channel. I follow the channel and find it really engaging and often recommend it to friends. This video on Starship explains the "raison d'être" far better than even the people behind the project do themselves.
Extreme skepticism is the only reasonable reaction to starship.
Well that was an unexpected intersection of my interests on UA-cam 😁
Thanks for talking about Starship from an astronomers perspective. I've been following Starship from the beginning, yet I learned a lot from this inspiring video.
Im sure it will be every bit as successful as Elon's Hyperloop, CyberTruck, Solar Roofs, and Tesla door handles ...
@@uncannyvalley2350 Or as successful as Falcon/Dragon....
@@uncannyvalley2350 i
@@uncannyvalley2350 There is no such thing as "Elon's Hyperloop". Turns out that *very good* mass produced is better than perfection that doesn't actually exist, hence Tesla selling cars like hotcakes.
@@Mrbfgray cool story that you just made up on the spot. I take it you're Elon's Bottom? Did he buy you a Pony too? 🤣
I think we all know what Elon wanted to call the rocket back in 2005 when he named it the BFR. Falcon is a great substitute though.
Yet another cool video btw
Always love the optimistic approach and perspective offered in your videos. Keep up the good work and keep us getting more excited for whats coming. Hope one day I can witness the launch of the cool world special purpose satellite with starship😁
Wow.
I had the same thoughts.
Well said.
Crazy seeing Cool Worlds Labs having nearly 550k subs! I remember them hitting 50k. Lol.
The videos are always EXTREMELY informative! Especially about exomoons.
Crazy for me too!!
@@CoolWorldsLab I can only imagine! Thank you for all the knowledge you've blessed our brain cavities with, here's to 500k+ more subscribed interests!
-Cheers 🍻
NASA: Failure is not an option
SpaceX: Success is one of the possible outcomes.
failure is always an option they just say that to keep everybody on their toes
your channel is one of the best. maybe start a second channel for students in your program! Lovely. Keep up the brave new work.
I always thought telescope constellations were a good idea if we had the tech to stabilize/synchronize them.
Could easily get space telescopes with an effective size of many MANY kilometers.
You are thinking on the smaller scale. With millions upon millions of individual reflective satellites (using large, thin aluminium foils as mirrors) arranged to form a mirror as wide as a continent, we can view exoplanets in 1080p.
@@kerbodynamicx472 Just being as realistic as possible without going too star trek. A constellation of dozens being 'relatively' close together is more feasible than trying to synchronize and focus millions :)
Millions of kilometers, even.
I would think stabilizing and pointing a telescope in space is much easier than on earth since there is only a fraction of external influences.
@@Shanghaimartin Are you qualified to judge whether it's feasable? Could they be in orbit around the Sun?
"And to go, where no astronomer has gone before"
Ah! Finally! Been waiting for this notification on my phone.
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Elon Musk said-- That’s where I start to have problems with Starship. What Elon Musk says rarely turns out to be true. I won’t hold my breath.
rarely indeed! I would say never for any technology that is being developed. it wouldn't surprise me if he underestimate the cost of starship not by a factor of 10 but 100
This channel is amazing and easily one of my favourites on UA-cam
I really hope that starship will deliver, but i am highly sceptical that they can make reentry and proper payload fairings work
Their will certainly be initial hiccups, but eventually consistent success.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Thank you for yet another insightful video and also for motivating your audience for getting out of the comfort zone and trying newer things.
"Hubble is 32 years old."
This feels like a personal attack.
This gives me a lot of hope for what missions I might see in my lifetime. Thanks for such an informative and optimistic video.
i hope that too :). i wanna see a real spaceship... iss is a joke. the fact we arent (atm) able to get like the iss in one piece to the space... for a real spaceship we need like 20-30 fully iss stations to combine that to a spaceship in my opinion
@Miller 1983 yes u right... the hell will come!!!! beware of zeberus!!!! he can bite u in both calfs and in your balls xDDDDD
@@Kushenable bc they are deceing you.
All we need to make this work is a Retro Encabulator device which uses six hydrocoptic marzel vanes and an ambifacient lunar wane shaft to prevent unwanted side fumbling
I've actually never heard of this project before. Now that I have, I am excited. So very much. To be alive during the age where such things like this are being developed. Astronomy is something that I have always been interested in. It brings me joy. Thank you so very much for making videos.
Starship? It is exciting!! Every Saturday morning (US time) Marcus House covers everything that happened at Starbase that week, right here on You Tube. ua-cam.com/users/MarcusHouse
@pyropulse Not the company. The project itself. Had no idea that they were doing this.
@@Scone_Biscuit Huh. Well, you should look into it more. There are so many channels that talk about it on a daily basis. As someone quite interested in space exploration, astronomy, and the like, this is a very well known project, not without good reason.
@@xiphactinusaudax1045 Well then. I guess I am that one guy living under a rock. Rip. Tbf, the only space channels I actually care to click into are this and Anton Petrov. It does make me excited though. I wonder what developments and discoveries would have been made if it wasn't for the budget choke astronomers have been dealing with since forever.
Wow. If someone told me about this comment, I wouldn't believe. But I see it, and I'm not drunk. Good you know about it now.
Starship taught us that we built this city on rock and roll.
Informative and inspiring as always, thank you :) There's so much said here that wonderfully ignores the "what ifs" of today and focus more on what we actually could do with a system like this. It's not about a company doing stuff, it's about what we as humans can accomplish when we just try.
We will circle back to this when real results are actually put forward.
I don’t deny that SpaceX’s engineers have achieved some impressive things, but I wasn’t expecting this seemingly negative take on NASA and their approach to safe space flight.
You’d be surprised at how many scientists working in the field of space travel think poorly of NASA
There's another way Starship can reduce the total cost of getting observatories to space. By loosening constraints on weight and volume, the designers of those observatories aren't forced to use hyper-custom, hyper-miniaturized components, which are wildly expensive. Cost-to-orbit isn't the only barrier to access that's being lowered, it's also cost to design and fabricate.
I absolutely love your videos. Starship is so exciting, and I'm glad to hear the Cool Worlds take on it. We can learn so much from that innovative approach that will impact humanity in countless ways.
I just have to say that I had been struck by sleep paralysis as I was listening to your video while trying to fall asleep. At first I was still able to follow what you're saying, but as I tried to fight back my paralysis, you turned into an alien voice before returning to normal as I was jolted fully awake.
A vessel of this size could also launch thousands of, for example, 4 inch reflector telescopes each the size of a cubesat working in visible light. These could then be public telescopes in space where amateur astronomers and Joe public could be controlling and observing on their desktop at home for a small fee perhaps beginning at 30 minutes going to 24 hours for example. Where to place them, what their life would be and how to dispose of them when life expired are some of the questions that clearly would need answering. Not to mention attitude control, attitude control parameters, power usage and so on. But it could be done, I'm sure. The more I think about it, the more I think it's viable at some point in the not so distant future.
I imagine some, maybe most, countries would be antsy about easily controllable private satellites. But otherwise your idea would be wonderful for amateur astronomy.
I had a somewhat similar idea for having a large collection of relatively small cheap telescopes, with mirrors more in the range of 1m.
That could then share data like they do with the event horizons project.
The one fatal flaw of the plan is the data sharing aspect, not sure how one would do that cheaply with current technology, but if that hurdle is overcome in the future. We could have a space telescope with a collection aperture larger then our own planet, and the more telescopes there are the higher resolution we'd get.
Getting the price point relatively low for every part of the satellites would be essential as a dozen of them wouldn't be able to offer anything better then what event horizons is already doing. But a few hundred would be mind blowing levels of detail.
I had the same idea .. except to piggy back them on starlink satellites .. that's 42,000 satellites in that constellation. would also help keep the astronomers that are complaining about the satellites obstructing their view happy.
Can these things work well if orbiting around the Sun?
@@red-baitingswine8816 They'd be designed a little differently and be more expensive per unit, and to launch.
But there's no reason it can't be done.
Seeing the progress in the last years just by SpaceX really shows where we couldve been if NASAs budget wouldnt have been cut so drastically in the 70s.
Awesome dude, you made me breath deep again dreaming about see some of this within my lifetime. I´m 52 and so far I don´t seeing more people such as Elon. Not a fan but I undestand curiosity and risks. Love the pace of your products. Keep pushing the concept.
Man. Every time I watch one of your videos, I feel the need to subscribe to your channel, only to realize I already did. Phenomenal work, I'm so glad I found your channel.
Better notification than messages from the wife and kids 👍
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I'm so happy that I am alive during this time. To witness the evolution of our future. Bad or good....to witness whatever this leads to is just amazing.
Science daddy is back with another video 🥳
Wait😂😂😂But Im Pretty Sure Im Older,That Doesnt Feel Right😂😂😂🤷🏼♀️
I really appreciate you weighing in on Starship! Awesome!
I love your channel and I’m so flipping invested in spacex and starship. I’ve been watching daily updates on it since the very beginning. Very excited to watch your video. The more coverage starship gets the better! Now if everyone can go knock on the FAAs front door…
I'm surprised that Elon Musk hasn't named the tanker starship "the Stanker"
15:20 A note here, not only do I think this estimate is too low by a factor of ten, Musk has a history in exaggerating. He said a very similar thing about Falcon 9 and that still costs 60mio + as well, I doubt Starship will ever drop bellow 100mio per launch (which would already be a huge achievement anyway).
Also, its not that NASA is itself incapable of doing it for cheaper or finishing projects quicker, NASA is severely restricted by politics. The rocket parts need to be sourced from all states so every politician can go hoke and say they brought some business to their state, obviously this makes everything way more complicated and more expensive.
Similarly NASAs budget allocation changes under every administration, so they constantly have to shift focus all over the place.
Almost the same thing is true for ESA except that you need to replace states with member nations.
Check out Thunderf00t for more of Musk's exaggerations.
NASA needs Apollo x1000 funding.
This channel is an absolute gem.
So glad I came across it!
This man is a poet along with every other talent he is great at writing, filming, producing, and I'm sure the list is much longer. Kudos to you sir, love your wonderful English accent too!
Coming back to this after the very successful 4th test launch of starship!
100 people on this tin can, never gonna happen.
@@Jan12700 The key to achieving his Mars goals is SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket: The stainless steel vehicle that the company is developing with the goal of launching cargo and as many as 100 people at a time.Dec 1, 2020
Space Sloan survey please. Just one telescope 9 meters dedicated to viewing whole sky every night and putting results online.
While it's nice to hope that SpaceX comes through on their claims, it's prudent to remember that Musk generally just says random numbers and goals that sound unachievable, because they actually are.
The proof is in the pudding, but when it comes to making a rocket reusable, there is a undeniable precedent of success from SpaceX.
@@CoolWorldsLab however, there are some doubts, that "reusability" makes launches cheaper. In order to get breakeven point reusable rocket must have launches constantly, but there is no such demand on the market. SpaceX can't find a client for Falcon Heavy, hardly finds clients launches for Falcon9 - substituting them with another ponzi-alike venture - Starlink. It is hardly understandable, is there any client, which needs to launch 150 tons to the LEO. So far, Starship's reusability is dead by arrival, except of Starlink launches.
Knowing Musk's business style by example of Solar City, there is considerations that SpaceX cannot reach breakeven point, compensating it with flow from investors and venture foundations.
@@CoolWorldsLab Reusable rockets aren’t exactly new, it was somewhat successfully experimented with in the 90s. Was no commercial need for it, so the project shut down.
I have my doubts about the realism in Space X/Musk’s vision and timelines. I think he is hyping things up to get whatever support he needs in order to keep rolling. The man said they would launch humans to Mars in 2024, but it sure doesn’t look that way now. He recently readjusted it to 2029. This is a common theme for Musks wild claims. Proof is in the pudding, until then it’s all just talk - and Musk loves to talk.
Falcon9..... do you need more proof that reusable rockets work and bring down launch costs?
@@Immanatum if has wasn’t being held back by the government starship would be much further along. They’re holding him back because he’s making everyone look bad. Once Starlink is finished he’ll destroy the high speed internet market and he’ll fund whatever he feels like. He’ll probably be the first Trillionaire.
Found this channel about a month ago and really glad I did. By far best channel about astronomy.
If he could just ease up on the marijaunas! Lol
Thank you, that was one of best videos I have seen, excellent production values, every photo and video clip was on point, the music didn't distract or annoy me. Editing was seamless. The voice of radio star and the face of a leading man. This was my 1st video and I'm already hooked. Thanks! Keep up the excellent work, now I'm going to select my 2nd video.
Good Afternoon 👋🏻
Hey there!
@@CoolWorldsLab Makes my day seeing Cool Worlds pop up in my notifications lol. Watching now. Thanks David.
What a great video on the awesome capabilities and possibilities of Starship!
I absolutely love your channel. This UA-cam channel and Isaac Arthur's channel are my absolute favorite UA-cam destinations!!
Keep up the great work - Thanks so much for this great video!
Great video. It's lovely listening to future possibilities of Starship use.
Amazing video. I love this channel!
Dr. Kipping i highly recommend that you train your skeptical eye on Mr. musk and his claims re: starship. There's an entire channel dedicated to debunking his nonsense. Called "common sense skeptic." Just evaluate his claims and do the math yourself. This is your duty as a scientist
Indeed and well said, I saw part of a video from this channel and was considering subscribing. But I thought "let me just see what other content they have" and here I find this nonsense! Suffice to say, I most certainly wouldn't be subscribing to such ignorant dumb garbage!
Well there are channels dedicated to showing everything he has accomplished on the opposite side of things🤷♂️
@@redd-jb- irrelevant
I love this. Very thought provoking.
Nothing ventured nothing gained!
I love it.
"Elon Musk said...." He says lots of things that never happen.
And says a lot of things that do and have happened🤷♂️
And it just happened. You’re a clown lol
This didn’t age well
@@corinm6567except, it did. Because Musk does often make promises he doesn't keep. Just look at the cyber truck. He built an "off road truck" that breaks if it gets wet. Whenever Musk actually involves himself in a product, the product often suffers and the results are almost never what he'd promised.
Guess what
Thank you for your channel. I have learned so much since subscribing. Interesting now that starship has had its first flight. The success/failure of the first flight shows there are many obstacles ahead, time will have to be spent on re-designing a viable launch pad/system, and increasing the reliability of the raptor engines, which I think has quite a way to go. However, those of us who have followed SpaceX’s failures and successes over the years have no doubt that they will ultimately solve these problems and give us this launch capability in the very near future. Please keep these videos coming.
Thank you so much for your duty to humanity sir. Absolutely love both your videos and your way of thinking. It always shows the beauty of life and reminds us to always keep smiling. Thank you.
Yes! I totally agree with you
Not hard to imagine now that building a base on the Moon with low gravity, with the use of Starship hauling materials to start building a Moon base and a space station, could very well be on the cards.
You accidentally bungled the SLS acronym, it stands for "Senate Launch System".
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Terrascope. My grownup self heard this and thought it to be very clever. My inner 12 year old, however, heard this as Engrish and thought it hilarious.
I don't believe those much more cheaper costs, but I like we explore space more. Anyways I like how David holds on to the truth a lot and with your expertise you can help anyone interested. Keep up the good work.
So uplifting. I watch this channel as an antidepressant. In the face of a world which seems to have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory we could be years ahead now if we hadn't wasted our treasure.
I would love to see you do an interview with Lex Fridman one day, if you ever get the opportunity. I feel like you would get along great and he would have some interesting questions for you.
This this this
The terrascope and system-wide internet sound so awesome! I hope I can be around when that happens.
I'm glad that we delayed the manned Mars until today instead of doing it in the 80s and 90s. We could actually afford to stay instead of doing a repeat of the Apollo program. Not only that but it seems like we're distancing ourselves from US federal budget so even if the Feds were to stop 100 percent funding the Mars missions the private industry would likely keep the colonial operations going.
Your channel is really really good. I am not from science background, I am studying economics but i have interest in science and your way of explaining things is so simple that even I can understand it. Loads of love, keep up the good work!
If you are studying economics make you you figure out where currency originates. Then comprehend where you originate.
It is such a shame that most of the money SpaceX saves NASA continues to be handed over to Boeing, SLS, and Blue Origin for their poorly managed projects that simply do not work for various reasons. SpaceX should be paid the same per seat as Boeing to perform the same work - i.e. Crew Dragon vs Starliner. The extra profits to SpaceX would find numerous uses to speed its various R&D projects.
they have access to Elon's pocket, I think they're fine
That's not how NASA's budget works. The money for SLS is allocated by Congress, it can't be used for anything else. As for Blue Origin, etc, part of NASA's job is to get multiple companies working on multiple options.
As for Starliner; the key part to understand is, Boeing and SpaceX weren't paid to provide the same work. The Commercial Crew Program is designed to provide seats to the ISS in a similar manner, yes, but it's also designed to have that done by two providers. SpaceX was paid to develop a spacecraft, building on the knowledge gained from the cargo craft it was already launching. Boeing was paid to essentially start from scratch. Crew Dragon is a very different craft than Cargo Dragon, but it wasn't starting from scratch. SpaceX's bid price was based on their expectation that the rocket's cost would be partially recouped by reusing it. Boeing's bid price was based on them knowing they had to use an expendable Atlas.
Not sad..FPS mars problem using retro thrusts and the JWST....ffs I am tired of Spacex fanbois making this a false dictonomy.
Agree with the other private organizations tho.
budget won't be a problem for spacex in the near future if it's starlink satellite succeeds to make a significant profit.
You know you must be into something when nearly every rocket company is mimicking your every move.
SpaceX is changing space exploration in a step function. Imagine what a fleet of dozens of starships can haul up or down our gravity well
SpaceX is a scam
It still makes my heart skip a beat or two, seeing a spaceX landing.
I would be more caucious with Musk´s promises. After all there have been many failed ones in the past. After looking at their progress with hyperloop, tesla truck, teslabot and so on... I have much more confidence in SLS with its cost 23B.
Gotta love this SCI FI!
Keep them coming 🤣🤣🤣
If billionaires didnt exist, NASA could be doing this, not one man.
NASA would have never done this. Would have cost 10x the amount and take decades.
He’s a billionaire because of his abilities and contributions, not inheritance. If NASA could do this, they would have already. The people of NASA probably have the ability to build one, but not with a bureaucratic organization such as NASA.
Aren't they just gonna make bigger telescopes that still need to be folded up like origami?
No...... Stop it.... This is not gonna change anything.... It's as realistic as Musks hyperloop.
Your videos are amazing! Never been so humbly inspired
I hate to say it but you simply cannot believe most of what Elon Musk has to say.
This is the best science channel of UA-cam and it’s not even close! Awesome vid! Again
"JWST notoriously had 344 single points of failure at launch" ... none of it failing. Which demonstrates the high qualifications of NASA and ESA engineers. Compared to SpaceX, aaaaaa, any news about the Starship after its launch failure? Imagine that the JWST was in that rocket. Seriously, imagine that JWST was in THAT rocket.
Sure boomer
I keep thinking we got to be nearing the end of rapid progress in astronomy, but this video gives me hope it will continue for many decades to come.
Promises require delivery. So far, EM has delivered remarkably little in this field of any true weight. Science fiction promises, test footage, and a lot of CGI publicity videos that look like they've fallen off a Star Trek episode. And that's pretty much it. Everything is always, perpetually, two years away. Hmm... Some folks have applied real numbers and tech requirements to Musk's claims and have found that nothing adds up. Well, we'll see... but we need to see fairly quickly otherwise we're into PT Barnum and emporar's new clothes territory.
Ladies and gentlemen....I give you 'Starship'...The greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were added to the French marriage license.
The trial-and-error method is fine, until you start putting people inside. I still think caution is important.
Right, I’m very much discussing space telescopes here which have no human occupants of course
why would you trust anything that elon says though? he's wrong about almost everything, all of the time
Yes!!! he got rich by being wrong all the time! I wish I was wrong more, I could use a better cash flow
Elon’s track record is far better than almost anyone.
@@shou635 exactly
@@shou635 nice try elon but it's obvious when you use one of your alt accounts because it's unrealistic that anyone would ever praise you for anything ever
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