Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. SpaceX does test each component separately. But that can only go so far, it’s impossible to put them under the same environment and stresses of a real rocket launch. I don’t see why this approach is “ridiculously wrong”. This is where SpaceX differs from NASA: these rockets are built very quickly and very cheap. Launching them costs them practically nothing, estimates put it at $90 million. The value they get out of the data exceeds that.
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  2.  @MaticTheProto  Relighting an engine isn’t hard on the ground, gravity pulls the fuel to the engine. But when it’s in orbit or falling the fuel floats away, and that is a challenge. It’s actually one of the things you can only test in a flight.
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  3. Exactly. Also Starship is designed to be extremely cheap to begin with
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  4.  @ContraVsGigi  and in terms of refuelling, Starship will be fully reusable. So you aren’t throwing 15 ships into orbit, you’re sending a few multiple times. NASA isn’t concerned because all of this happens in LEO without anyone on board where issues can be addressed quickly.
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  5. I’ll pay attention when they actually build an orbital rocket
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  6. NASA will be gutted. It needs to be, they're such an inefficient agency
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  7.  @herrschaftg35  “working” It currently can’t launch because it damaged its launcher and it’s taking them ages to fix it.
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  8. They reached an orbit of (234,-50) which roughly equals a 92km circular orbit But that was the plan. It was purposely kept suborbital
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  9. You say this like SpaceX hasn’t been regularly reusing rockets for the past few years.
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  10. He’s saved the US space industry. He’s directly saved NASA tens of billions, he’s the only reason the US has astronauts in space at the moment
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  11.  @jessicaandtrains7768 soon EVs will be the only cars on the road 😂
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  12.  @jessicaandtrains7768  yeah they will, either Battery EVs or Plug-In Hybrids. Then as Batteries mature every car will be a BEV. The only things keeping them back are range and charge rate, two things that are improving rapidly.
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  13.  @jacksons1010  it doesn’t need to be the energy density of motor fuels. The new Model 3 Long Range has a range of what, 600km? It’s more around 500 because the tests are idealistic but that’s a long way. Double the energy density and that same car could do 1000km Sounds crazy but it’s possible, we already have lithium batteries that dense. The DoE is planning on us having a commercially viable battery with a 50% greater density by 2030, by 2050 an additional 50% increase seems expected. Charge times will improve too and costs will go down.
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  14.  @Azamat421 not wrong at all. Thunderf00t has barely any idea about the industry. His last livestream was an embarrassment, he got so much wrong.
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  15. Wernher von Braun said the first ruler of Mars would be named Elon
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  16. He’s not paying himself anything. He’s trying to get shareholders to bring back the compensation package that they first agreed to in 2018.
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  17. It’s $50 billion for increasing the companies value by 17x in 3 years. Paid through stock options so it’s comping from the shareholders
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  18. But they aren’t. SpaceX has saved NASA billions and essentially revitalised the space industry.
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  19. Well that video aged terribly because now every launch provider in the world trying to make their rockets reusable.
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  20. No, the program is already behind schedule because Orion and the new Space Suits have issues
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  21. Yeah he’s hated EVs for a while. Points out all their downsides, ignores their benefits and leaves no room for technological advancement which is going fast in a relatively new technology like EVs
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  22. It’s pretty obvious that he’s autistic from his maneurisms. But also a lot of his children are also autistic, which is a sign
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  23. Tesla’s are far less likely to catch on fire than an ICE.
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  24. 2 launches of the SLS cost more than the entire funding that NASA has awarded SpaceX for Starship. This on top of the $12 billion in development costs for the SLS. No one wastes money better than NASA… well except the DoD
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  25.  @vask3863 it’s a level 2 for liability, but it’s not any less capable than a level 3 system.
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  26. In the far distant future, assuming we don’t blow ourselves up, that’s how I see us dominating the galaxy. We’d send thousands of ships to a planet with materials and robots to build a sustainable colony and then clone humans to populate it. They’d be sent all across the galaxy.
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  27. No, Apollo cost more like $250 billion. At one point it was receiving 5% of GDP, that’s a greater percentage than we spend on the military now. NASA estimated the cost to develop a new lander was $10b. Add on the cost to launch it up with SLS ($2b), and you have 6x the cost of what SpaceX is charging
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  28.  @TheLumberjack1987  btw the only thing canceled was a private flight around the moon. SpaceX is still the primary customer of Artemis
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  29.  @TheLumberjack1987  😂 okay then
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  30. So serious they killed 14 astronauts… Okay but yeah there risk averse approach to development is why their projects are so expensive
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  31. ⁠ @weightlifting_socialist Elon has so much money because he me provided insane value to the world. Without him EVs would be a decade behind where they are now, NASA would be still wasting billions on the space shuttle and so on
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  32. Apollo sent a tiny little lander that could barely fit 2 people to the surface, and left most of it on the moon’s surface. Starship on the other hand is absolutely massive, and won’t leave anything behind. All that is added weight, which means refuelling is needed.
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  33. It isn’t like saying we’ll have a space elevator. It’s far less complicated than a space elevator We’ve already refueled things in orbit, just not a cryogenic fuel.
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  34.  @lazarus2691  wow that’s crazy. I knew SLS was bad but wow. Contracted for $380m, now estimated to cost $1.5b. Meant to finish early last year, instead will finish late 2027
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  35. But it does...
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  36. It’s like he has autism or something.
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  37.  @durshurrikun150  Russia isn’t even a contender, I don’t know why you keep bringing them up.
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  38.  @infernaldaedra  the shuttle was a death trap. An insanely expensive death trap, adding up all costs it came to $1.5 billion per launch. It was a complete disaster that set NASA back decades.
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  39.  @Loading-lg6hs deleted and reloaded to continue profiting off of musk haters
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  40. That’s pretty normal for business acquisitions. Stocks aren’t very liquid at large scales, so it’s better to draw down on debt and slowly pay them off. His debt will be at a very low interest rate.
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  41. I don’t see that going down so well.
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  42. Imagine letting this bloke ruin your dreams.
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  43. aussj4link it’s cheaper to just have the bike, no electricity. The electricity produced in a whole gym of these would only power 1 house. He’s just saying it’s a waste of money.
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  44.  @MaticTheProto  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#/media/File%3AShuttleAbortPre51L.png Those black spots are why Challenger died. There was no way to abort during launch. The solid rocket boosters also had no way of being turned off. Crew Dragon has an abort system built in unlock other systems which keep it seperate. The boosters have loads of redundancy. Falcon 9 also uses boosters that can be throttled and turned off if need be, making an abort faster and safer.
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  45. Bonus wasn’t for this year. It was for Tesla’s stellar performance from 2018-2021. He literally got shareholders a 20x return
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  46. Gerafix what are they?
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  47. But planting trees in the wrong environments can actually hurt the ecosystem
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  48. Oh it definitely has been. Before SpaceX, ULA (Lockheed Martin + Boeing) was absolutely ripping off NASA and the military. SpaceX has undercut them. They’ve saved NASA tens of billions (which they admit themselves)
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  49.  @WinstonSmith685 SpaceX cut their contract so NASA could afford it
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  50. Tesla has been massively cutting costs and passing them onto consumers.
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