Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Why does Musk always lie?" video.

@definingslawek4731 On March 9, 2016, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at US$1 million cost of refueling and US$3 million cost of refurbishing a used first stage. In August 2020, Elon Musk tweeted that refurbishment and reuse of a booster are done for less than 10% of the price of a new booster. Falcon 9 Block 5 has been designed with multiple reuses in mind, up to 10 reuses with minimal inspection and up to 100 uses with refurbishment. Older Falcon 9 Block 3 and Block 4 can be reused up to 2 times and these are obsolete Block builds. SpaceX "prefer to retire" older rocket boosters by assigning them to expendable missions when possible.
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@rossmanngroup There's a difference between applied science to R&D science. Your fixing doesn't involve higher risk R&D effort, you're just fixing an existing design.
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@woopsserg FYI, Tesla is testing LiDAR/camera sensor fusion FSD in Canada. Human eyeballs and cameras have problems with fog. Musk admitted to “talking smack” about LiDAR but noted that SpaceX — his other company — has developed its own versions of the laser sensors to assist the Dragon capsule.
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@briangbur8743 >There is one major car manufacturer that's doing research into hydrogen fuel cells Toyota's HFCEV efforts are rubbish. If Toyota's HFCEV efforts were like Tesla's EV effort, Toyota's HFCEV sedan car should have fast acceleration and Toyota investing in many hydrogen refuel stations! Toyota's HFCEV design parameters is like their existing mundane Prius G1/G2/G3/G4 acceleration efforts. Prius G5 is the 1st Prius with good looks and good acceleration, but it's too late. Akio Toyoda's efforts are garbage and removing him from the CEO position is a good direction for Toyota. The entire Japanese hydrogen fuel cell vehicle effort is half-assed. .
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@Bob-of-Zoid >good for like 3 flights FALSE, 1. A Falcon 9 booster can be reflown up to 100 times with refurbishment in between flights. 2. 31 May 2021, SpaceX's most-flown rocket, a Falcon 9 booster that has flown a historic 10 times. 3. Three boosters in the fleet have already surpassed the milestone with 11 flights each. 4. A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket has been reused for the 12th time with the Starlink Group 4-12 mission. You're fake news. I'll debate you and you will lose.
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@Bob-of-Zoid My argument is specific to Space X's rockets, instead of your generalization bullshit.
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@Bob-of-Zoid >Now refute everything I said You do not have any position to make demands on me. You are nothing.
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@Bob-of-Zoid >His solar panels that looked like shingles were fake Tesla solar roof panels are real and they are designed to look like roof shingles. Tesla: "We’ve completed 500k+ Solar Panel and Solar Roof installations—that’s equal to ~4 GW of clean energy" Date: Dec 20, 2022.
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@theonly5001 Rocket Lab doesn't have a self-guided reusable rocket booster. The small Electron booster needs to be captured by a helicopter which limits implementation scalability. Blue Origin doesn't have an orbital-class reusable rocket booster. ULA doesn't have an orbital-class reusable liquid engine-powered rocket. Boeing's solid boosters on SLS are not reusable. Ariane Space doesn't have an orbital-class reusable rocket booster. I'm aware of the Ariane Next program.
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@theonly5001 >Boeing has the X37B which is reusable. X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is an unmanned mini-space shuttle drone.
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@theonly5001 Blue Origin doesn't have an orbital-class reusable rocket booster. New Shepard is a suborbital rocket. X-15 Flight 91 reached 107 km altitude while New Shepard reached 119 km altitude.
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@theonly5001 X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle wasn't designed to be manned since it lacks the reserve crew area in its design. Unmmaned Dragon has a reserve crew area in its design.
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@theonly5001 Electron rocket is a small rocket with a 300 kg (660 lb) load to LEO.
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Certain software AI programming that operates in the real world with 3 dimension space is hard. Ask about F-35 sensor fusion software issues.
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@liam3284 >I also consider the hype around "The Boring Company" and "Hyperloop" as as effort to slow down transit investment, which increases demand for cars. That's narrative is FALSE. According to Musk, a hyperloop would be useful on Mars as no tubes would be needed because Mars' atmosphere is about 1% the density of the Earth's at sea level. Hyperloop is not 1st company to promote vacuum train direction. The SCMaglev in Japan has demonstrated 603 km/h (375 mph) without a vacuum tube, by using an extremely aerodynamic train design. It also avoids the cost and time required to pressurize and depressurize the exit and entry points of a hyperloop tube.
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