Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "" video.

@prof.crastinator Starlink is amazing, and provides communications capabilities in large parts of the world that have none, from off the grid content creators to giving high speed internet to cruise ships, and is an incredible advancement in communications for everywhere outside of modern cities. And Elon is funding large portions of Starship himself, it's his privately owned company, and the only tax dollars going to him are as part of the moon mission project, which is a drop in the bucket for the costs of developing this. So basically all of your points are wrong lol
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 @flipflopski2951 since none of this is being funded by taxes, that is a bad argument lol
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 @nidhogg00 didn't you watch the video? We literally saw the air flowing out when it opened. It's probably not very much air pressure, but there was some, enough to blow a doll out lol
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@mitseraffej5812 no one gets to give permission over international waters, and it's out of the atmosphere before it crosses other countries, so the US is the only country who's airspace it will be in.
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 @flipflopski2951 none of that was paid for by taxes, this is a private company developing a new rocket for their own uses.
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 @marcogenovesi8570 you can see that's the speed it was going in the telemetry
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 @marcogenovesi8570 and at a certain point in flight the FTS is safed because it's not needed anymore.
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 @marcogenovesi8570 @marcogenovesi8570 I read it as kmh lol *oops!
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@jayrussell3796 @jayrussell3796 it started out as his money, and much of his net worth is tied up with SpaceX, but remember that SpaceX is already wildly successful, being the dominant space launch company already, basically sole provider for US human spaceflight capabilities, and Starlink is gaining customers basically as fast as they can build it out, and while Starship is a major investment, it will be a good investment when it is done, and is vital for Starlink to be and stay a viable business model. So right now it's looking to be an excellent investment, and they are making much more rapid progress than any other company or government project ever has.
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 @JamesGibeau-Robberson it would be so low that it would burn up in minutes, just as Starship did, and there is nothing orbiting anywhere near that sub orbital altitude.
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@prof.crastinator can you be more specific? Because I gave a lot of facts, but I don't know which one you complained about. But for one, SpaceX hasn't received any billions from NASA for Starship yet, they have a contract to land on the moon, but they don't get paid until they do it.
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@martenkahr3365 I agree, and the polite thing to do over international waters is to alert ICAO etc of your plans so they can divert traffic, but if Elon stuck a rocket on, say, a big converted oil platform (last I heard they had one getting retrofitted) and shoved it out into international waters, they would need no PERMISSION from anyone. But since they are launching from the US, the FAA will be the one verifying their flight plans, including the notams etc over international waters.
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@EMichaelBall @EMichaelBall valid point, but if they do, NASA gets all the data, which is what they are paying SpaceX for at this point is the testing and data, which then becomes NASAs, and they can use it as they wish, so it's a specific product NASA is paying for.
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@duviworthing Starship development costs are estimated to be around $10 billion dollars. The NASA FIXED PRICE contract includes two lunar lander flights, one of which will have NASA crew on board, which means that each flight will require all the launches to get fuel to orbit from a whole fleet of Starships. It's also paid out in phases as they hit milestones, so the only way SpaceX gets any money from NASA for this flight is if they successfully completed some of the testing on the list like the fuel transfer in space tests, in which case NASA pays them for the data generated. NASA is paying them to deliver a service, namely a moon lander, and they don't get paid unless they deliver the service. So no, this flight was not paid for by NASA, though if they provided NASA with the testing requested, it might have offset the fuel costs partly.
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