@@funnybearburger8817 Well we might be related to cause i have the same First and Last name LOL !!! Dodd's are out full force!!! NH here!! I just for Ship and Giggles!! Texas has the most Dodd's and there are over 30k Dodd's in the USA!!
KSP is another thing I would love for Elon to buy and fix. He could rebrand it as Spacex space program. Surely, his software engineers could make it amazing again.
I know Elon’s always “very” optimistic about timelines but at least he and his team is always moving forward and not hiding behind closed doors. This type of access is unheard of and we have no idea how lucky we are specially to the future engineers out there.
It's his unwavering optimism that drives the team to try and achieve it. That kind of hope and optimism is infectious if you're around it long enough. Most of the cynics have either quit, or were fired for not being ambitious enough.
@@johnrmcclure1 Half his tweets are about the imminent collapse of civilization due to people not having enough babies, while he's an absent father in 11 out of 12 of his kids lives. Meanwhile he's using the other kid as a prop. Very optimistic 🤣 I wonder if when his kids watch him stream diablo if that counts as 'dad time'. What does it say that none of the mother's of his children want anything to do with him?
It's funny how Tim tries to coax Elon along to get further into the building and be able to get nice shots, while Elon wants to stop every meter and just talk about rockets 😂
Since it's here in the US, he can't stop every meter, it's every yard or foot. :) I'm kidding of course. I wish our country would finally move to metric. :)
I know! Elon needs to stop and look at the person to have deep conversations it appears. Cuz if he's walking his mind start wandering- like it did when he said "oh sorry I was thinking about something else." 😂
I genuinely believe that Elon enjoys having Tim around. Someone who truly understands the magnitude of what he is doing and achieving and Tim is so good in breaking it down for us.
Tim manages to stroke Elon's ego enough to stay in his orbit. Elon gets notably flustered when Tim has a suggestion or an idea that sounds reasonable because in Elon's world he's the only one that's supposed to be the smart one.
I believe Tim is a rocket-science entusiast, so he can ask the right questions, talk Elon's language so to speak, knowing the things he's flexing about.
They moved the flap many months ago actually. But its very fundamental change and they already had like 9 starships in the works so it takes a long time to actually implement.
Literally everyone knew it would be an issue. This is why re-entering vehicles use passively stable shapes and not movable flaps with hinges. Only exception is the space shuttle, which stopped being flown for a reason… But yes watching a man light tax money on fire so he can accomplish what was done in the 1960s in the worst way possible is very impressive.
Over the years a chemistry has developed between Elon and Tim comprised of love for rocketry, mutual respect and desire to share the dream with the world.
It's great when Elon gets interviewed by someone who has in-depth knowledge of what's going on. Most 'reporters' ask the same superficial questions that he's already been asked endlessly.
Oh please. Tim spends the time stuttering and laughing inanely at nothing. It's clear he is pretty clueless about the construction and is out of his depth
He is going on a rocket launch so he's there already with access. And I think Elon watches his stuff too, seems like Elon gives him special interviews and in depth interviews too. So I think Elon actually likes him.
I don't know if I would agree with that. Elon said the it was a 50:50 shot of the heat shield working, which is funny because it half way worked. It kept starship functional, but there was massive damage that isn't acceptable for a reusable rocket. I think the most impressive part of the launch was the unplanned part. "Landing" with that level of damage is extremely impressive.
@@Amir_404 Well for what the website said was there target for the launch, they pretty much hit all of them. Still landing with "that much damage" was insane
@Amir_404 keep in mind, while we all saw the flap damaged, there were tiles intentionally missing as well with sensors to see how badly it would burn through the heated side.
Elon/Spacex's work from turning a small, neglected hamlet in South Texas into one of the most large-scale and ambitious posts of rocketry and spaceflight in 5 years is truly remarkable. I mean say what you want about the man (I have some personal gripes myself) but the dedication, efficiency, and ambition towards advancing spaceflight and becoming a spacefaring civilization is something to be lauded for.
@@soapbar88 Kessler syndrome isn't nearly as bad as it is made out to be. It is only a risk in LEO, and if it did happen, we could still send rockets out near the poles. It would make space flight harder(more delta V needed because you cannot take the optimal path), more unsafe, and made an entire class of satellite nonviable(starlink would be the hardest hit), but it would not trap us on earth.
@Amir_404 With advancements being made in atmosphere breathing ion thrusters satellites constellations, like Starlink, will be moving into significantly lower orbits. In these low orbits space debris is not an issue since atmospheric drag clears it out within days or weeks. As you said Kessler syndrome is a sky is falling SciFi concept that can be worked around fairly easily with innovation & delta-v
He probably sees it as very efficient. Tim knows his stuff, and has a lot of followers, so 1 optimistic Elon for an hour can cover a lot of ground with high level discussions for Tim to break down later. Plus Tim just lost his moon orbit… Elon might be feeling generous.
Let's not forget Tim actually asked elon a question in a past tour that resulted in a design change. Also this is marketing. Plus I almost think elon respects Tim and is a friend.
As I watch this, It brings me back to those old Walt Disney episodes where Werner Von Braun would come on and explain space travel and how they think it will work. Long after we are all gone, footage like this will be watched by people who cant beleive the access and transparency to one of humanity's most impactful person we once had. Top shelf archival material is what this is.
After watching this video, where Elon talks about everything and answers questions, as well as the way he speaks, I now realize that what my friend told me is true-that he didn’t achieve anything on his own, but is only rich because of his father, who owns diamond mines where children work hard extracting raw materials for him. I now know that this is the truth and that he really didn’t accomplish anything himself-it was all done for him. And to think, I used to believe he was truly intelligent.
Other journalists would kill to get an interview like this with Musk. Meanwhile, Tim is calm, cool and collected and doesn't ambush Elon with off topic questions. Plus, Tim knows exactly what Elon talking about, as well. Why would Elon talk to anyone else? Seriously.
Agree…, I don’t believe there is any other journalist that can have this level of credible & technical expert engagement (coming from Tim) that would be worth Elon’s time.
Two people passionate about the subject matter... Interesting and entertaining. MSM journalists usually have an agenda to ambush and get a sound bite. Every interview Tim has completed with Elon has been awesome....Like a watching an excellent documentary.
Great comment! I will never understand why all the secrecy around things that can benefit humanity. I know it can end up in a wrong hands, which is even more idiotic to think why using tech against your own kind. I just hope when these things start to work, bad people don't get them.
@@jabadabadu7089 Westerners will take the ideas to China asap for large payments. There's an ex Royal Air Force pilot currently training Chinese PLA Air Force fighter pilots.
@@richy69ify It's all about the money. Even if society is crumbling to pieces, money must be first thing on our mind. Money is useful for things we need, but it is exactly like drug. And we are junkies. Unable to control our apetite. Why I think differently, I honestly don't know. For me personally money is not a motivation. It's actually quite the opposite. There are things in life that I just cannot understand. I've been trying to understand but every time I return to the same conclusion. When I see people cooperating, that is my motivation. And that moment is when things happens like they supposed to. For example the last starship flight. That moment of people cheering. There is literally nothing material that can substitute that mentality of people in that moment. And we seriously lack together moments like that. Together as civilization, not as nation. Utopical thinking, but never tried. Why? Greed
These videos will go down in history. We never saw Edison or Ford or Tesla how they did what they did. Luckily we have Tim for Elon. Cannot thank Tim enough for these videos
Listening to Elon say that the challenge is to get something to work regarding how the thermal times are attached, then optimize it reminds me of the saying "First be effective, then be efficient." Trying to optimize too early in a process can impede getting the process to actually work.
Optimising too early is inefficient and leads to getting locked into suboptimal solutions, better to find the best basic solution, then, and only then, optimise.
@@gibrains Or as we used to say in software: "First make it work, then make it fast. There's no use for a fast program that doesn't work.... but you can ship a slow program that works and speed it up later."
Software has the same problem. Something that works inefficiently might have an architecture that can’t be optimised. Basic design has to be right. SpaceX is still working on that. Stage 1 rebuild is an example.
48:37 paraphrasing “no one in human history has ever built a fully reusable rocket system, not even SpaceX, but give us a year.” lol. Love the confidence.
They said give them like 6 or 7 years with the moon mission, that got cancelled after a bunch of delays. So I think what we can expect as for a fully reusable rocket system from spaceX is a lot of delays and then a cancellation
@@rrai1999 Absolutely not. Simply because starship now is actually financially secured thanks to starlink. Despite the initial fear from SpaceX and Elon that starlink could not turn a profit without starship's launch capabilities, falcon has ramped so much and Starlink sales have been so numerous that it is slated that starlink alone will generate more profits this year than the combined HLS and Dear moon contracts would have. With in the a latter a very very heavy lean on HLS. So even if HLS was to get canned for whatever reason starship would still not get cancelled, simply because SpaceX has always stated they were building it for themselves first. And that any other use case would be a welcome adition
You can tell Elon really enjoys his time with Tim, their interaction is so natural. I love the pause after he listens to Tim’s questions and “crazy” ideas, you can virtually see his brain processing. Very entertaining, well done to Tim and his whole team.
Looks natural, for being at his own installation I think he looks very unnatural: his frozen legs and the politician arm gestures are so bad I wanna call Hollywood and ask for my money back on this one.
@@ivan.jeremic Tim talks over Musk and interjects when Elon pauses to gather his thoughts. If Tim was a bit more patient and allowed Elon time to elucidate I think this would move from a good interview to a better interview. No place to go but up for both of these men. I think Tim has overused "That's crazy." It is amazing. It is impressive. It is massive. It is substantial. It is not crazy, it is feasible and very intelligent.
There have been many buildings where rockets have been assembled before, and factories that built components for those rockets, but never a factory that builds the entire rocket just as there are factories that build cars. So getting a tour of Starfactory under construction is kind of like getting a tour of the very first Ford factory.
To be clear, there are no longer any factories that build the entire car. Basically, the only thing an auto assembly plant actually creates, aside from assembling all the parts, is stamping the sheet metal that makes up the car body itself. As I understand it though, the original Ford plant that produced the Model T did make every part for that car, up to and including the steel itself, but modern manufacturing relies on a lot of outside suppliers for things like seats, windows, alternators, ect... In fact, I believe most auto manufacturers, if not all of them, have a separate plant, usually not located in the same area, that produces the drive-trains.
@@operator0 That's true. And at Starfactory many components will be made elsewhere, such as the engines themselves, and integrated onto the rocket. But the method of the rocket moving through a linear series of work stations rather than assembling the rocket in a stationary location is much more like an auto assembly plant.
Ford build things that acutally work for a reasonable price. Elon destroys tax money for something Nasa did know 50 years ago doesn' work. will never work. Unless he "invents" a white paper with an anti grav propulsion.
What I truly love about Elon, is that he doesn't act like a know it all. When Tim gives a thought or an idea, Elon listens and even considers the idea, even used one of Tim's ideas. Thanks to Tim and Elon for the tours they bring us by video. Truly love the approach SpaceX uses to better space flight.
It's an interesting contradiction: when he knows a lot about a subject, I think he appreciates how complex things can be and thus seems very open to suggestions and feedback (more so than a lot of people). Hopefully, he can learn to apply the same approach in areas he knows less about.
@joakimlindblom8256 I believe he does. I mean he's not perfect like the others who responded to my post, but he admits to his shortcomings and thrives to do/be better.
I`m 74 and what`s insane to me is watching these two young men in tee shirts who look like the next door neighbors just walking around in this huge rocket factory. Inside Elon`s mind is where impossible becomes possible.....
Elon's suffering a bad case of the brain rot right now, I wouldn't want to be in his mind at all. I'd wish he'd drop the twitter thing and just focus on SpaceX and Tesla. Old Elon is best Elon IMO.
"we have a design where success is one of the possible outcomes" is one of the gloriously nerdy things I've ever heard. Wonderful insight into this world!
Everything is a probability. The entire universe operates on probabilities. Musk is possibly the greatest estimator of probabilities the world has ever produced. Or at least the only person with that ability to act on it.
@@Triple_J.1 nah, there are others equally as potent as him, but he was at right place at right time, and probability of that happening is very less, so you have not heard about or seen such people who are as potent as elon musk in ability to act..... The probability was in his favour...
@@Triple_J.1 Musk has the financial capabilities to act on those uncertainties. How many companies with unique concepts bleed out financially, when theoretically they could have changed the world? Money dictates everything, as well as luck.
Great job with not interrupting Elon. Too many people would try to talk over the person they're interviewing, but you always stopped and allowed Elon to talk.
Elon needs a placid flow of conversation in order to use his spoken language properly. He famously isn't good at being a monologueing presenter despite doing it all the time and he also doesn't perform well if he's being pushed along by an interviewer with very limited program time.
so refreshing to have a CEO come out and talk about all the weaknesses in their product, shows confidence that everything will be fixed and work one day.
@@DustinBrettI believe he said, "someone you have to absolutely admire for the excitement he has brought back to space”. Do you really believe Elon Musk is better aerospace person than Tory Bruno? Technically, Tory Bruno is an Aerospace Engineer and Musk is not an engineer. Did you ever see the Tory Bruno interview done by Smarter Every Day?
@@pebmets No need to create animosity where none is needed. They have different backgrounds and education, but both know what they know and have visions for human space travel. It's not every day you have a multi-billionaire just giving a candid view of their company with a decent grasp of its intricacies.
The best part about Tim’s interviews with Elon is that he lets him speak. This is unprecedented that we can enter the mind of a mogul and tour around it. Thanks Tim!😊
I don't know really anything about Rockets but it's cool to learn and I like watching Elon he is a genius and so its interesting to watch and listen to him.
Do you remember the proposition I made the wife that loves children can you Denny's get paid to take care of children that was a cute dance you cannot pay to get children brought up keep on dancing
Bezos knows how to communicate and be a human. The way he waves and says hi to employee's and thanks people, and can complete sentances and knows how to say things when there is a long silence.
@@matthewcarnali7700 Just remember if Elon's little pauses while he is talking bothers you, he is working on a new Raptor design and trying to solve a couple of orbital re-entry problems while having the mundane conversation with the interviewer.
@matthewcarnali7700 his social skills are not his strengths. The guy just only thinks about refining an idea. Also, the guy is literally living on the production floor so everyone who works there probably has seen him one too many times 🤷♂️
Tim, I love the casualness of the interview. Elon is completely open and honest, and i love the way you do these walk and talk interviews. They are real and unscripted. I kinda wish you could do the same type interview at the Tesla factory.
Nah, they cant even copy themselves reliably atm. No one wants to copy them. Perhaps, in a decade, when they have a working ship, someone might want to copy something off of them, but definitely not now.
@@UninstallingWindows I guess you are not up to date but China is copying both Falcon 9 and starship. They succesfully test launched and landed their mini falcon 9 hopper a few days ago.
The biggest lesson I gather from this interview is that Elon is hyperfocused on putting all the team's brain cycles on the limiting factors of getting Starship to RRR state. The responses to all Tim's suggestions were "well we could do it that way, but it doesn't matter as much at this point until we can achieve RRR"
Yep, "I don't care how we make it work, so long as it works" ... half the problem is knowing what answers you need for questions you don't even know to ask, you only get that from experience. Starship landing on a virtual tower was a bit deal. I suspect RRR will happen way further down the track, but that doesn't mean Starship can't be operational way before that stage. Either way very exciting and cool stuff.
@@RI5E_AGAINST yea. your quote akin to the idea of "done is better than perfect". what matters most for the starship program is that it's done (ie. RRR)
yeah, they are talking about how the fuel flows through the raptor engine. The raptor engine is the first functioning Full fuel flow engine. there is a zero percent chance I could explain it, but it is the most advanced style of rocket engine, and its more efficient than any other engine ever built.
They tried to mimic falcon blatantly already but I think the issue for them is that this is all experimental. Nothing seen is the final version and is noted to be in rapid and dramatic change constantly. One could copy it only to realize it didn't end up working for the people making it at SpaceX and it was subsequently scrapped only a month later.
16:15 comment about secondary shield. "ITAR controls" referencing non exportable intellectual information of design. What we are shown isn't repeatable just by discussion.
What's funny is the seal may actually work fine. But the position of the fins clearly does not. Fortunately they'd been planning to make that particular change for a few years. Unfortunately, that change won't come for the next two or three flights.
@chris-hayes I would expect they either use a wind tunnel or computer simulation to find an orientation or slight placement change that enables control in atmosphere but avoids the "flow of hot gas" that it seems to currently enable. To your point, it can't be "too far away"... perhaps even a mold of steel then plated with tiles to physically redirect the gas flow?
@@davidbonilla2253 Generally, I believe they are just moving up around the curve of the Ship (from the side on view when entering the atmosphere). That way the hinge and hinge gap are at least partially protected by the body of the ship. Control authority would be lower, but I'll take that trade-off with a little massaging of Size and Programming to get it back.
when you consider something like, say, building a house can be plagued by all kinds of setbacks, things not arriving on time, things not fitting, moody crews, red tape - it's amazing the amount of work that actually gets done and how dedicated (or well paid) the crews at starbase and the peripherals are, shout out to the people working 24/7 to get us to mars.
Why would we want to be on mars? I am always amazed how much energy and dedication people, with aims that are clearly bullshit, have. They are working their asses off so a few people can suffocate on an inhabitable rock.🤣
@@loonateer there is no good reason for going to any planet - but if we don't it's equally dumb. you can stay on earth, it really makes no difference to me.
@@jimdetry9420 i do find it hard to think of any reason other than having a back up planet, for going to mars - i want to go myself, i love the idea, but i do think that other than satisfying our curiosity, our desire for new things, there isn't any practical reason for going, anyone who does go is going to stay there, live there - in other words no real benefit to earth. it's a bit like asteroid mining, we can never bring anything from an asteroid back to earth (practically) (extinction event comes to mind) so we will stay in space. earth will not benefit unless we can move EVERYONE off earth and make it a nature preserve, which is what i'd lobby for.
@@HarryNicNicholas The only people who need a reason are the ones spending their time, effort and money on it. Personally, I think "satisfying our curiosity, our desire for new things" is a lot nobler than a lot of what society spends its money on. I'm almost 70 and have a lot of Tesla stock. My hope is that I get to spend that stock on a lunar vacation before I die.
Thats because he actually has learned something from Tim - IN the last interview series Tim mentioned a design option regarding using autogenous gas pressurization. Elon looked at starship and said "you know that's actually a good idea". They made a corresponding design change
A sign of a really smart person is listening to everyone as though they know something they don't. That is the only way to learn, and smart people are constantly learning from everything and everyone.
@@MAC-nm5is TBF Tim asked confirmation that the Heavy Lift used a different system than Starship - if I recall correctly - and it triggered in Elon a question in his head like "Why DO we actually maintain a different system in the booster?". As he seemingly couldn't come up with a good answer, and probably saw advantages with interchangeability he decided there and then to have his engineers change the design. It's still awesome Tim was a triggering part of that process, but it was Elon that came up with the idea.
China's dear leader flies around in a Boeing 747, an aircraft first designed and manufactured in the US back in the 1960s. Chinese enginners should start there. Once done, they can then turn their attention to more recent stuff.
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@@KitaJabig It's not just that; they are using the original methodology for ship design, which is getting it right the first time. The only problem, is that by doing it the first time, you may end up finding a problem that you did an account for. Casein point what's happened to Starliner. SpaceX, on the other hand, almost _gleefully_ sacrifice rockets in order to get useful data, by making imperfect designs to push the envelope in order to iterate to a better design. And now? SpaceX has proven their point that iteration through their willingness to iterate using imperfect testbeds is the way forward.
If you have a complicated system like a rocket, you habe a lot of systems that need to work at the same time, for the whole system to work. So in the last 50 years engineers tried to keep risk down, by using as much allready tried and proven tech as possible. So RS-25 engine is used on SLS, because is allready used in the Shuttle and it self was based on the J-2. This approach works, but a lot of 50 years old engineering decisions are carried over. Engineering wich was done without computers, Without CAD, FEM and CFD. It is like basing your new car design on an old air cooled VW beetle engine from 1950. So Space X is the first company to be bolt enough and have enough capital to design a system new from scratch. So that it allready works that well only after 5 years is just a marvel. Of course there are many little problems that are needed to be ironed out in the next 2-5 years, but by 2030 we are going to have a really reliable, reusable rocket the first time in history. We are going to be able to build huge things in space. Space stations that are 100x the size of the ISS.
The government conspiracy costing many many billions and a ton of actors on the SpaceX site must keep on going, to keep the silly masses in line. We can only keep the plebs in line and under our control if they think the earth is a sphere!
They probably have cleaning bots. Wait until Tesla masters Optimus humanoids and starts employing them here and on the Moon and Mars with AI + Vision and Sound.
Every area with vehicles is like this. The launch pads are less so, but at the Cape they're quite old too. This is all magnitudes larger than all I've seen in person. Area 59 where Dragon is prepared is an enormous clean room, and yet, tiny compared to this.
@@simplelife88393 If you watched, you would have seen one of the employees cleaning the floor with a ride on machine.We did ours at work every Friday the old fashion way. Sweep down and then mop down. Our floors didn't shine as much as Star Factory's because we had added anti-skid to our epoxy coating. But they were clean.
It’s so easy to get caught up in the importance of all of this, but then I ask my coworkers about it and they don’t even know what SpaceX even is. I guess it’s a somewhat niche interest.
Try to make sense out of his hyperloop whitepaper. Dont you ask yourself how someone bringing a brain fart like that to paper has the capacity to understand anything? Props to the real SpaceX engineers making things happen despite having to work around Elon xD
@@hernerweisenberg7052 I clicked on this comment to see the hate 🤣 More will come. You all need to work on what's really eating you up. Maybe take a break from the internet.
@@hernerweisenberg7052 hyperloop was just an experiment and in the noone got hurt not eve nyour tax money. your second sentence is complete ignorance, without him none of this wouldve existed, hes the reason why billions of your tax money is wasted on other rockets from nasa
the scale of this factory is insane, it's also hard to judge the size of the BFR aka starship, but seeing Elon walk past a segment really opens your eyes to how big this rocket really is
I've never seen such a humble person with such intellect. So passionate about something, and more than excited to share everything about it. Class act. The man is ALWAYS thinking.
LOL! First time I ever heard brain misfires described as "multitasking." Each neuron bounces around inside Elmo's head for 10 minutes before finding a place to land. 🤪
Tim, I think Elon truly enjoys having conversations with you. I know for a FACT he sees you as one of his peers, when you asked him about the thrusters on the last interview you did with him and gave him the idea, I forget if it was cold thrust or whatever, and he knows you've learned your rocket engineering and physics to a tee, but he is SO thoughtful answering you it makes for a wonderful view inside his head.. Thank you for all the hard work you've put in Tim, truly and honestly I appreciate it with all of my nerd heart.
I understand him better than a vast majority of people; like him, I'm on the autism spectrum. The only difference I've noticed between me and him is that he is a terrible narcissist, and I am very much the opposite. When I speak of the similarities, I'm referring to how many people with autism and ADHD have a tendency to go 110% into things that interest us the most. Things that don't interest us, often irritate or bore us. For him, dealing with the media is both frustrating and very much against his strengths. But dealing with Tim is like talking to a friend who shares his passion. I realized how brilliant Elon is through these videos because he actually has a grasp on what he is accomplishing here. The key thing about SpaceX is that it isn't just Elon who's doing this. If there's one thing Elon is good at, it is following through with a vision, and picking the right people for the job. Tesla and _especially_ SpaceX are great examples of this, and through both companies he has dramatically changed the future of humanity, because even if Tesla goes under, the contributions to EV usage will stay. And with SpaceX, he inspired a great many companies to follow their lead, with the realization that, yes, humans can in fact have a rocket return to Earth in one piece. I may dislike Elon because of his political views and how he treats a number of his employees, but I can never deny the fact that he is dramatically changed the future of humanity, and that we need him, even if I hate to admit it. And Tim is doing a great service by interviewing him, because he is giving a lot of people a lot of useful insight on both Elon's positive contributions, and SpaceX itself.
@@TheEDFLegacy I think he isn't a narcissist any more than your average person. He just has SOO much money he doesn't need to care any more, he has been rich for so long he has changed.
@@TheEDFLegacy I respect your honesty and the fact that you may dislike someone but able to recognized their achievements. I myself don't agree with Elon's way of living (spiritual wise), as one striving to be a Christian, but I do respect and admire all his intelligence, knowledge, leadership and achievements, but I would never follow his way of living, from a spiritual perspective, I'm a nerd just as he is but Spiritually wise, not so much.
@@MsArchitectschannel It's hard to say. He is very anti-worker in a lot of his actions, and how he treats a lot of his Tesla employees. A lot of his political advocacy is toword a lot of rather harmful ideals. It's between those two things that makes me question a lot about him. I like his fun side, and I love his brilliance, but those are the parts are what make me uncomfortable.
A few takeaways from this, but what stood out is that Elon really doesn't mind having his kids around at work, in fact it looks like he enjoys it. Not many directors can say the same. Also - looks like hes totally chilled. Doesn't mind the spotlight but also isn't trying to be perfect for it. The mark of a confident man.
Also - knowing that this interview was before flight 4, its interesting that Tim had a few ideas that I reckon Elon did some learning with - like the last time - for instance the towers simulating a catch when the booster returned and did a water landing. Seemed like he hadn't thought of it but it made perfect sense.
Part of it is autism spectrum- role-playing or acting or being fake takes a lot of mental and emotional energy, and one never really is very good at it. It's far easier and far less stressful just to be your normal self all the time.
One of the qualities that makes me really like Elon Musk... is that when he's talking to you he's really thinking... and he's not thinking about how to present to you, how to say it, or the optics of his words... he's actually thinking about.... the topic and question that you're discussing like it's the most important thing in the world at that moment. I can listen to this man all day.
Hi there! Jesus says to you today: "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28 May God bless you! 😊
Why does the richest guy in the world have to bring his kids to work? I am sure he can afford full time daycare for his kids. This is something you do when there is an emergency on a Saturday and you have to bring your children with you.
This should be something we all do and have a part of our culture to be honest. Get them exploring and interested early instead of hiding away doing nonsense all day.
Hey is busy, this is his way of spending time with his kids, easier to have a babysitter following him to care for the kids while they are with him and he gets few quality moments with his kids! I think it is also good for the kids to see their dad in full spectrum through work, home and all
@@jordanmazzucait's quite obvious you don't like or love children. Why would he have his children next to him, if he can? You actually ask this question ❓⁉️ Quite obvious you don't like children, and even of you do have them, you probably don't love them.
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Whats up with anti gravity propulsion I just heard about on Glenn Beck podcast?
@@funnybearburger8817 Well we might be related to cause i have the same First and Last name LOL !!! Dodd's are out full force!!! NH here!! I just for Ship and Giggles!! Texas has the most Dodd's and there are over 30k Dodd's in the USA!!
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Elon Musk's Kids: "Dad we want Kerbal Space Program!"
Elon Musk: "We have Kerbal Space Program at home".
KSP is another thing I would love for Elon to buy and fix. He could rebrand it as Spacex space program. Surely, his software engineers could make it amazing again.
@@wmason1961 THEY. DO. NOT. HAVE. TIME.
I would definitely love the added emphasis on readability he would surely add
Elon Musk's Dad: "Go play with these emeralds."
@oooooooooo3449 Sure, they do. They got the bugs fixed on X. He can move software engineers around. He doesn't have to divert Spacex engineers.
that old ford truck sitting in a parking lot of teslas, at space x is priceless
Good to see one guy has taste
Teslas are great but its important to remember where we came from
texas
Possibly owned by one of the welders. Far more practical than any electric alternative.
The owner has a Tesla at home ;)
🎯 Key points for quick navigation:
00:00 *Tour Starbase factory*
00:57 *Thousand ships yearly*
01:58 *Starship payload capacity*
03:35 *Iterative design process*
05:05 *Reusability is crucial*
06:35 *Faster turnaround time*
08:02 *Rapid launch capability*
09:33 *Ship-to-booster ratio*
10:55 *Starlink satellite deployment*
11:57 *Heatshield design challenges*
14:02 *Tile expansion issues*
15:36 *Missing tiles test*
17:04 *Passenger safety priority*
18:43 *Alternative cooling methods*
20:49 *Flight 3 failure*
21:56 *Linear adjacent flow*
23:27 *Reusable heat shield*
25:04 *Booster landing simulation*
27:33 *Thruster ice blockage*
29:41 *Autogenous pressurization explained*
32:43 *Multiple booster display*
34:54 *Cold gas thrusters*
36:29 *Thousands of changes*
37:58 *Design refinement process*
39:24 *New engineering challenges*
41:58 *Next-gen Raptor engine*
43:36 *Next-gen engine servicing*
45:08 *Raptor cooling improvements*
47:41 *Increased Raptor thrust*
49:14 *Full reusability goal*
50:45 *Moon landing challenges*
52:54 *Factory production flow*
55:09 *Heat tile attachment*
57:42 *Starlink deployment method*
59:53 *Expanding factory layout*
01:00:56 *Electric actuation system*
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Total nerds and I love it !
@@junipersnow1 LOL.
شكراً لك ❤️
Sure thing.
For the 1% people reading this, i hope you become successful in life.
Thank you, hope you do too.
Thank you, you too ♥️
ty, s2u
Thank you wish you too Amen
You too, Asad. Thank you.
I know Elon’s always “very” optimistic about timelines but at least he and his team is always moving forward and not hiding behind closed doors. This type of access is unheard of and we have no idea how lucky we are specially to the future engineers out there.
It's his unwavering optimism that drives the team to try and achieve it. That kind of hope and optimism is infectious if you're around it long enough. Most of the cynics have either quit, or were fired for not being ambitious enough.
Huh?
@@johnrmcclure1 Half his tweets are about the imminent collapse of civilization due to people not having enough babies, while he's an absent father in 11 out of 12 of his kids lives. Meanwhile he's using the other kid as a prop. Very optimistic 🤣 I wonder if when his kids watch him stream diablo if that counts as 'dad time'. What does it say that none of the mother's of his children want anything to do with him?
@@johnrmcclure1 that is an incredibly destructive mindset
@@ihydf👈😂
It's funny how Tim tries to coax Elon along to get further into the building and be able to get nice shots, while Elon wants to stop every meter and just talk about rockets 😂
Since it's here in the US, he can't stop every meter, it's every yard or foot. :) I'm kidding of course. I wish our country would finally move to metric. :)
He might be nervous about ITAR stuff. I get drilled with it and I'm not even close to aerospace.
I know! Elon needs to stop and look at the person to have deep conversations it appears. Cuz if he's walking his mind start wandering- like it did when he said "oh sorry I was thinking about something else." 😂
I thought he had a back problem? he does kind of walk stiffly?
Well, having to look up at those rockets all the time, anyone would have back problems lol@SteveAkaDarktimes
I genuinely believe that Elon enjoys having Tim around. Someone who truly understands the magnitude of what he is doing and achieving and Tim is so good in breaking it down for us.
Perhaps. Sometimes I agree with that. This interview though? Elon is objectively very frustrated with his suggestions
99.9% of the employees are probably like him too.. Tim just happens to be a Space news reporter
I think Elon generally enjoyes having people in awe of him around.
Tim manages to stroke Elon's ego enough to stay in his orbit.
Elon gets notably flustered when Tim has a suggestion or an idea that sounds reasonable because in Elon's world he's the only one that's supposed to be the smart one.
I believe Tim is a rocket-science entusiast, so he can ask the right questions, talk Elon's language so to speak, knowing the things he's flexing about.
Elon’s build is wild.
Tesla truck
Bloating and no exercise 🏃♂️
He has the Cybertruck shape haha
I’m tired of him rubbing his hair like a lady
Looks like a friggin wóbble weeble. Money doesn't fix UGLY
Crazy hearing the chat about the flap hinge in advance, shows just how much they know about the potential issues!
CAE
Yes.
It's crazy, that you think it's "crazy". You must not be paying attention.
They moved the flap many months ago actually. But its very fundamental change and they already had like 9 starships in the works so it takes a long time to actually implement.
Literally everyone knew it would be an issue. This is why re-entering vehicles use passively stable shapes and not movable flaps with hinges. Only exception is the space shuttle, which stopped being flown for a reason… But yes watching a man light tax money on fire so he can accomplish what was done in the 1960s in the worst way possible is very impressive.
“It used to be intense in tents. Now it’s in a building”
lol
I thought he said they were in "tents in tents."
You really gonna follow that "misheard!". It's gold man@@bluewater82
probably not the first time he said that too lol
bro thinks the user-added captions are what he actually said thats wild 😭
Camping is intense.
Over the years a chemistry has developed between Elon and Tim comprised of love for rocketry, mutual respect and desire to share the dream with the world.
They certainly have had some quality exchanges. Elon adopted one suggestion if I recall. The mutual respect is real, and love you identified that.
Preparation and delivery…
Tim keeps Elon delivering with every sentence…
Fun to watch Elon think before answering…
😃
It's great when Elon gets interviewed by someone who has in-depth knowledge of what's going on. Most 'reporters' ask the same superficial questions that he's already been asked endlessly.
at one point in time one of the two will be very dissapointed about the other.
Oh please. Tim spends the time stuttering and laughing inanely at nothing. It's clear he is pretty clueless about the construction and is out of his depth
What an amazing interviewer? Question after question, he just kept Elon busy. Brilliant!
The construction and cleanliness of this buildings is insane respect to the people who are building those facilities
Love the kids just running around and playing at the rocket factory. So cool
And they're so cute aswell
@@F-16_ACER
”And they’re so cute aswell” 😊
”And they’re so cute aswell” 💀
@@Wurtoz9643
"Let's eat, kids" 🙂
"Let's eat kids" 💀
Pure chaos lol
Looks like there's some careful herding happening just there.
Insane to get this level of access... Bravo!!
geometry dash
Musk is desperate to not look creepy. But look at him. The guy is a disgusting freak.
I thought my comment section was bugged but then I remember I’ve seen you here before in a live chat a long time ago lol how do I remember that
He is going on a rocket launch so he's there already with access. And I think Elon watches his stuff too, seems like Elon gives him special interviews and in depth interviews too. So I think Elon actually likes him.
why insane? wrong word. need to stop using it.
Thank you so much for letting Elon talk and give him time to think and not interrupting him on each pause he makes as Jordan Peterson did. 🙏
26:00 Man, watching this part KNOWING that less than 24h after this recording everything went almost perfectly is nuts
I don't know if I would agree with that. Elon said the it was a 50:50 shot of the heat shield working, which is funny because it half way worked. It kept starship functional, but there was massive damage that isn't acceptable for a reusable rocket.
I think the most impressive part of the launch was the unplanned part. "Landing" with that level of damage is extremely impressive.
@@Amir_404 Well for what the website said was there target for the launch, they pretty much hit all of them.
Still landing with "that much damage" was insane
@Amir_404 keep in mind, while we all saw the flap damaged, there were tiles intentionally missing as well with sensors to see how badly it would burn through the heated side.
The test went rather well from what we can tell, and way better than most of us thought, but calling it perfect is quite the bit of hyperbole.
coincidence or did you suggest closing the tower arms in sync with the booster
Thank you for letting us join you on this amazing conversation. Love it. 🙏💪💯
Elon/Spacex's work from turning a small, neglected hamlet in South Texas into one of the most large-scale and ambitious posts of rocketry and spaceflight in 5 years is truly remarkable. I mean say what you want about the man (I have some personal gripes myself) but the dedication, efficiency, and ambition towards advancing spaceflight and becoming a spacefaring civilization is something to be lauded for.
Let's just hope there's no Kessler syndrome
@@soapbar88 Kessler syndrome isn't nearly as bad as it is made out to be. It is only a risk in LEO, and if it did happen, we could still send rockets out near the poles. It would make space flight harder(more delta V needed because you cannot take the optimal path), more unsafe, and made an entire class of satellite nonviable(starlink would be the hardest hit), but it would not trap us on earth.
@Amir_404 With advancements being made in atmosphere breathing ion thrusters satellites constellations, like Starlink, will be moving into significantly lower orbits. In these low orbits space debris is not an issue since atmospheric drag clears it out within days or weeks. As you said Kessler syndrome is a sky is falling SciFi concept that can be worked around fairly easily with innovation & delta-v
Like las vegas and the hoover dam.
Elon will be remembered along with the greats like the Wright Brothers, Edison, Ford, Da Vinci
That was awesome. I enjoyed watching this. Elon is incredible.
Can we appreciate that Elon took more than one hour of his time to sightsee Tim, his cameraman, and us around!
Yep
He probably sees it as very efficient. Tim knows his stuff, and has a lot of followers, so 1 optimistic Elon for an hour can cover a lot of ground with high level discussions for Tim to break down later.
Plus Tim just lost his moon orbit… Elon might be feeling generous.
Let's not forget Tim actually asked elon a question in a past tour that resulted in a design change. Also this is marketing.
Plus I almost think elon respects Tim and is a friend.
Well, us and 1.2m others. Imagine 1.2m people following along 😅
How does he have time to do all this?
Let's appreciate Tim Dodd for doing this every year and giving us great insights on what's going on at Starbase!
As I watch this, It brings me back to those old Walt Disney episodes where Werner Von Braun would come on and explain space travel and how they think it will work. Long after we are all gone, footage like this will be watched by people who cant beleive the access and transparency to one of humanity's most impactful person we once had. Top shelf archival material is what this is.
Yea! Then we all realized Werner was a na zi and all of that space nonsenses from him is:
Propaganda
@@labbeaj Still the Nacis, including Von Braun, brought the Americans to the moon. Operation Paperclip.
@@labbeaj prop a ganda at deez nuts
@labbeaj nope...he is a hero who fought for his country and Europe!
@@notimeforspace2477 🤣
After watching this video, where Elon talks about everything and answers questions, as well as the way he speaks, I now realize that what my friend told me is true-that he didn’t achieve anything on his own, but is only rich because of his father, who owns diamond mines where children work hard extracting raw materials for him. I now know that this is the truth and that he really didn’t accomplish anything himself-it was all done for him. And to think, I used to believe he was truly intelligent.
12:36 the hing gap & hot gas passing through the gap. How accurate Elon was. This is insane 😮😮😮. Thank you both for the precious interview.
It’s awesome how comfortable Elon has gotten with Tim, so it’s 2 friends discussing things.
I agree! I was just thinking how comfortable, open and happy this conversation is. They both seem like kids excited about space to me lol
Was waiting for them to say, let’s go get lunch and draw some stuff on napkins for the next rocket
Other journalists would kill to get an interview like this with Musk.
Meanwhile, Tim is calm, cool and collected and doesn't ambush Elon with off topic questions. Plus, Tim knows exactly what Elon talking about, as well.
Why would Elon talk to anyone else? Seriously.
Agree…, I don’t believe there is any other journalist that can have this level of credible & technical expert engagement (coming from Tim) that would be worth Elon’s time.
Tim is genuinely into Rockets and has no ulteria motives like career Journalists. It's good to see Elon and Tim talking Rockets so casually.
Tim sounds pretty dim to me
@@Zinojn Guess you should get yourself checked out then 👍🏼
Two people passionate about the subject matter... Interesting and entertaining. MSM journalists usually have an agenda to ambush and get a sound bite. Every interview Tim has completed with Elon has been awesome....Like a watching an excellent documentary.
I remember when all you had was a trailer to work out of and its amazing seeing how far you've come
When has the public been ever able to follow the development of a rocket like today with SpaceX? Simply amazing.
Great comment! I will never understand why all the secrecy around things that can benefit humanity. I know it can end up in a wrong hands, which is even more idiotic to think why using tech against your own kind. I just hope when these things start to work, bad people don't get them.
Have you heard of NASA?
@@jabadabadu7089
Westerners will take the ideas to China asap for large payments. There's an ex Royal Air Force pilot currently training Chinese PLA Air Force fighter pilots.
@@richy69ify It's all about the money. Even if society is crumbling to pieces, money must be first thing on our mind. Money is useful for things we need, but it is exactly like drug. And we are junkies. Unable to control our apetite. Why I think differently, I honestly don't know. For me personally money is not a motivation. It's actually quite the opposite. There are things in life that I just cannot understand. I've been trying to understand but every time I return to the same conclusion. When I see people cooperating, that is my motivation. And that moment is when things happens like they supposed to. For example the last starship flight. That moment of people cheering. There is literally nothing material that can substitute that mentality of people in that moment. And we seriously lack together moments like that. Together as civilization, not as nation. Utopical thinking, but never tried. Why?
Greed
Back in the 1960s, NASA produced this kind of detailed documentary themselves, and the press had access too.
These videos will go down in history. We never saw Edison or Ford or Tesla how they did what they did. Luckily we have Tim for Elon. Cannot thank Tim enough for these videos
Listening to Elon say that the challenge is to get something to work regarding how the thermal times are attached, then optimize it reminds me of the saying "First be effective, then be efficient." Trying to optimize too early in a process can impede getting the process to actually work.
You must be a great engineer.
premature optimization is root of all evil.
Optimising too early is inefficient and leads to getting locked into suboptimal solutions, better to find the best basic solution, then, and only then, optimise.
@@gibrains Or as we used to say in software: "First make it work, then make it fast. There's no use for a fast program that doesn't work.... but you can ship a slow program that works and speed it up later."
Software has the same problem. Something that works inefficiently might have an architecture that can’t be optimised. Basic design has to be right. SpaceX is still working on that. Stage 1 rebuild is an example.
My favorite part of this video was that Ford pick up in the beginning that’s a gem
48:37 paraphrasing “no one in human history has ever built a fully reusable rocket system, not even SpaceX, but give us a year.” lol. Love the confidence.
They said give them like 6 or 7 years with the moon mission, that got cancelled after a bunch of delays. So I think what we can expect as for a fully reusable rocket system from spaceX is a lot of delays and then a cancellation
@@rrai1999 Nope. This isn't a government project - no fickle finger of finance football is gonna stop Elon.
@@rrai1999 Absolutely not.
Simply because starship now is actually financially secured thanks to starlink. Despite the initial fear from SpaceX and Elon that starlink could not turn a profit without starship's launch capabilities, falcon has ramped so much and Starlink sales have been so numerous that it is slated that starlink alone will generate more profits this year than the combined HLS and Dear moon contracts would have. With in the a latter a very very heavy lean on HLS.
So even if HLS was to get canned for whatever reason starship would still not get cancelled, simply because SpaceX has always stated they were building it for themselves first. And that any other use case would be a welcome adition
@@rrai1999 LOL, are you new to SpaceX?
@@rrai1999 You're thinking about Boeing or Lockheed or their joint venture. Those are failing, slowly.
This is one of the few RUclips channels that will become a historical document in the future.
yes yes
In ten years we will look back on these videos and evaluate the success, hopefully it was more than successful.
Yeah cuz it has elon musk in it, showing around spaceX factory.
No duden que a pesar de la monumental evidencia, algún terraplanista llegará a desmentirlo.
Is this the guy who was suppose to have flown around the moon?
You can tell Elon really enjoys his time with Tim, their interaction is so natural. I love the pause after he listens to Tim’s questions and “crazy” ideas, you can virtually see his brain processing. Very entertaining, well done to Tim and his whole team.
Looks natural, for being at his own installation I think he looks very unnatural: his frozen legs and the politician arm gestures are so bad I wanna call Hollywood and ask for my money back on this one.
You love the pause 😂
He always has these thinking pauses before he speaks.
He looks annoyed by Tim if you ask me.
@@ivan.jeremic Tim talks over Musk and interjects when Elon pauses to gather his thoughts. If Tim was a bit more patient and allowed Elon time to elucidate I think this would move from a good interview to a better interview. No place to go but up for both of these men. I think Tim has overused "That's crazy." It is amazing. It is impressive. It is massive. It is substantial. It is not crazy, it is feasible and very intelligent.
this is really great. Thank God for you sir. Thank you for setting the pace for me...
There have been many buildings where rockets have been assembled before, and factories that built components for those rockets, but never a factory that builds the entire rocket just as there are factories that build cars. So getting a tour of Starfactory under construction is kind of like getting a tour of the very first Ford factory.
To be clear, there are no longer any factories that build the entire car. Basically, the only thing an auto assembly plant actually creates, aside from assembling all the parts, is stamping the sheet metal that makes up the car body itself. As I understand it though, the original Ford plant that produced the Model T did make every part for that car, up to and including the steel itself, but modern manufacturing relies on a lot of outside suppliers for things like seats, windows, alternators, ect... In fact, I believe most auto manufacturers, if not all of them, have a separate plant, usually not located in the same area, that produces the drive-trains.
@@operator0 That's true. And at Starfactory many components will be made elsewhere, such as the engines themselves, and integrated onto the rocket. But the method of the rocket moving through a linear series of work stations rather than assembling the rocket in a stationary location is much more like an auto assembly plant.
Are you a bot?
WOAH!!!!!!!
Ford build things that acutally work for a reasonable price. Elon destroys tax money for something Nasa did know 50 years ago doesn' work. will never work. Unless he "invents" a white paper with an anti grav propulsion.
Take a drink every time Tim says "crazy" or "insane".
I would be so sloshed. Or so over-hydrated.
Underrated comment, or ignored brilliance.
Or an um from musk
he needs to throw in some "that is NUTS"
Yeah you need to have a drink after the 100th time he says it.
Yeah they need to get a professional interviewer huh? You’d think with all his money , Elon could afford to step up his interview game.
What I truly love about Elon, is that he doesn't act like a know it all. When Tim gives a thought or an idea, Elon listens and even considers the idea, even used one of Tim's ideas. Thanks to Tim and Elon for the tours they bring us by video. Truly love the approach SpaceX uses to better space flight.
Oh he does! Especially when talking about things he has very small competence in, like healthcare or history and politics of eastern european nations.
@@solarissv777 Exactly :))). And he doesn't take it well when he is contradicted on something he doesn't know.
It's an interesting contradiction: when he knows a lot about a subject, I think he appreciates how complex things can be and thus seems very open to suggestions and feedback (more so than a lot of people). Hopefully, he can learn to apply the same approach in areas he knows less about.
@joakimlindblom8256 I believe he does. I mean he's not perfect like the others who responded to my post, but he admits to his shortcomings and thrives to do/be better.
Anyone who knows it all misses all the information
We are all so privileged to live during this period in history
I`m 74 and what`s insane to me is watching these two young men in tee shirts who look like the next door neighbors just walking around in this huge rocket factory. Inside Elon`s mind is where impossible becomes possible.....
Elon is an old fart tho >:(
Everyday Astronaut is Elon`s neighbor.
Elon Is 52
Elon's suffering a bad case of the brain rot right now, I wouldn't want to be in his mind at all. I'd wish he'd drop the twitter thing and just focus on SpaceX and Tesla. Old Elon is best Elon IMO.
Egalitarianism in all aspects.
The Fitter/Mech. on $40/hr barely notices his boss, a self made billionaire, as he works on a advanced space rocket.
"we have a design where success is one of the possible outcomes" is one of the gloriously nerdy things I've ever heard. Wonderful insight into this world!
Everything is a probability. The entire universe operates on probabilities.
Musk is possibly the greatest estimator of probabilities the world has ever produced. Or at least the only person with that ability to act on it.
@@Triple_J.1 nah, there are others equally as potent as him, but he was at right place at right time, and probability of that happening is very less, so you have not heard about or seen such people who are as potent as elon musk in ability to act..... The probability was in his favour...
@@Triple_J.1 Musk has the financial capabilities to act on those uncertainties. How many companies with unique concepts bleed out financially, when theoretically they could have changed the world? Money dictates everything, as well as luck.
Great job with not interrupting Elon. Too many people would try to talk over the person they're interviewing, but you always stopped and allowed Elon to talk.
Elon needs a placid flow of conversation in order to use his spoken language properly. He famously isn't good at being a monologueing presenter despite doing it all the time and he also doesn't perform well if he's being pushed along by an interviewer with very limited program time.
Tell me does any of the tweets Elon posts daily indicates he is a genius or are you that stupid?
are you on crack? how many times did tim dodd interrupt elon in front of the 3 rockets? like 17,000 times?
so refreshing to have a CEO come out and talk about all the weaknesses in their product, shows confidence that everything will be fixed and work one day.
I hope Tim can one day interview Tory Bruno. Then you will see the night and day difference between someone who is a real aerospace Engineer vs Musk.
@@pebmets Tory Bruno when asked "Is Elon Musk the Greatest Engineer of All Time?" gave the one word answer "Yes."
@@DustinBrettI believe he said, "someone you have to absolutely admire for the excitement he has brought back to space”. Do you really believe Elon Musk is better aerospace person than Tory Bruno? Technically, Tory Bruno is an Aerospace Engineer and Musk is not an engineer. Did you ever see the Tory Bruno interview done by Smarter Every Day?
@@pebmets
IKR!
Just like how Steve Jobs had all those computer, programming and engineering degrees.
...... oh wait🤔
@@pebmets No need to create animosity where none is needed. They have different backgrounds and education, but both know what they know and have visions for human space travel. It's not every day you have a multi-billionaire just giving a candid view of their company with a decent grasp of its intricacies.
The best part about Tim’s interviews with Elon is that he lets him speak. This is unprecedented that we can enter the mind of a mogul and tour around it. Thanks Tim!😊
Thats why elon invites tim, cause tim does not interupt meaninglessly and does not ask the basic repeated questions by mainstream media
@@Mr2winners And Tim also doesn't ask uncomfortable question which can put Musk in a corner :)).
Yeah, why should he. Elon isn't the subject, Starship/SpaceX is.@@MirceaGoia
He doesn't. Tim just add that voiceover after the fact.
Elon casually walking though his starship factory and whistling Tchaikovsky is the best part about this whole thing
Whats the time stamp?
51:29 @@mishXY
Really?
57:18
Let’s be honest he was whistling the “Nutcracker” likely due to his childhood cartoon watching than anything highbrow.
I don't know really anything about Rockets but it's cool to learn and I like watching Elon he is a genius and so its interesting to watch and listen to him.
I always suspected Elon must have a nanny brigade hanging around whenever he has his kids. Finally got to see it.
6:20 is the timestamp
A nanny brigade😢
Do you remember the proposition I made the wife that loves children can you Denny's get paid to take care of children that was a cute dance you cannot pay to get children brought up keep on dancing
@@Justic4Blueif i was rich as Elon id have a personal army of hand picked prostitutes
😂 One of those kids could disappear into that factory Willy Wonka style and Musk wouldn’t care or even know the name of which one vanished.
I am here after watching Bezos' Blue Origin Factory Tour. Man, Elon and SpaceX are on a different level
Bezos knows how to communicate and be a human. The way he waves and says hi to employee's and thanks people, and can complete sentances and knows how to say things when there is a long silence.
@@matthewcarnali7700 who cares? SpaceX has results and will put people on Mars, or create o'neillian cylinders for bezos
Elon is such a legend what a great guy
@@matthewcarnali7700 Just remember if Elon's little pauses while he is talking bothers you, he is working on a new Raptor design and trying to solve a couple of orbital re-entry problems while having the mundane conversation with the interviewer.
@matthewcarnali7700 his social skills are not his strengths. The guy just only thinks about refining an idea.
Also, the guy is literally living on the production floor so everyone who works there probably has seen him one too many times 🤷♂️
Tim, I love the casualness of the interview. Elon is completely open and honest, and i love the way you do these walk and talk interviews. They are real and unscripted. I kinda wish you could do the same type interview at the Tesla factory.
it would be so boring because they aren't doing anything particularly cool like this
You like the part where he said thats crazy?
Except for the Tesla motor part I don't think he liked talking about that one 😊
Yeah, could never imagine Jeff Bezos talking so openly (or knowledgeably) about the Blue Origin stuff.
I need Elon Musk’s help.
My grandson is a straight A plus junior high student
Im blown away how big it is and so clean
Who's here after the successful launch
👍👍
Me
Me, Starship still had a problem in the heatshield of flaps but it should be solved with new flap design. I can't wait to see Starship catching.
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"We've had that discussion many times... [cut]"
😂
I'm the one who gave Tim this question on discord.
Definitively an ITAR protected information ^^
timestamp?
46:35😊
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@@rayjay848 I recommended he cut that. I guess he kept it.
"Idk if anyone is going to copy us... it's a hard thing to copy..."
The badassery in that statement...
Nah, they cant even copy themselves reliably atm. No one wants to copy them. Perhaps, in a decade, when they have a working ship, someone might want to copy something off of them, but definitely not now.
@@UninstallingWindowsfalcon 9…
@@ethan44866 Falcon 9 doesnt really contain any groundbreaking technologies.
@@UninstallingWindows I guess you’ve never seen it before
@@UninstallingWindows I guess you are not up to date but China is copying both Falcon 9 and starship. They succesfully test launched and landed their mini falcon 9 hopper a few days ago.
How does he have time for all of this? Massive businesses, family and still gives his full attention to each interview.
And all those hours gaming!
What amazes me is how focused all the workers are. They are not too concerned seeing Elon there. Focused on a job
Easy to focus when you are building the future of mankind.
this amazes you??
Well yeah, they'll get fired for making eye contact with him.
@@KidCorporate 🤣🤣🤣
@@KidCorporatethat guy that fist bumped Elon didn’t get fired?
The biggest lesson I gather from this interview is that Elon is hyperfocused on putting all the team's brain cycles on the limiting factors of getting Starship to RRR state. The responses to all Tim's suggestions were "well we could do it that way, but it doesn't matter as much at this point until we can achieve RRR"
Yep, "I don't care how we make it work, so long as it works" ... half the problem is knowing what answers you need for questions you don't even know to ask, you only get that from experience. Starship landing on a virtual tower was a bit deal. I suspect RRR will happen way further down the track, but that doesn't mean Starship can't be operational way before that stage. Either way very exciting and cool stuff.
maybe, but I think his responses were more tailored to, "we could do it that way, but what matters is that it's done."
@@RI5E_AGAINST yea. your quote akin to the idea of "done is better than perfect". what matters most for the starship program is that it's done (ie. RRR)
The biggest lesson I gather is Elon had about 3 hours sleep.
excuse me, but what is RRR? My eng is bad
i have no idea what they're talking about.... but I'm loving every second of this video.......
yeah, they are talking about how the fuel flows through the raptor engine. The raptor engine is the first functioning Full fuel flow engine. there is a zero percent chance I could explain it, but it is the most advanced style of rocket engine, and its more efficient than any other engine ever built.
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"Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It’s truly helpful!"
We think the seal will work but it may not.
Narrator: it did not
Came her me for this 😅
I'm sure your design works much better.
@@jdesmo1I think this was just a joke.. why so serious?
where in the video is this discussion about the flap seals?
Yes it did . . . mostly . . .
In NORMAL rocket language that would be heavy lift.
Best line ever.
China probably has a roomful of engineers listening to this with note pads in hand.
Ya probably 😂
China`s space industry started way back in the 1950s....
They tried to mimic falcon blatantly already but I think the issue for them is that this is all experimental. Nothing seen is the final version and is noted to be in rapid and dramatic change constantly. One could copy it only to realize it didn't end up working for the people making it at SpaceX and it was subsequently scrapped only a month later.
16:15 comment about secondary shield. "ITAR controls" referencing non exportable intellectual information of design. What we are shown isn't repeatable just by discussion.
China is actually going to the moon. SpaceX is still trying to get its heat shield to work and is years late on its contract with NASA.
I love how Elon said 'consistent steps everyday'
13:00 "So you know one of the key questions is, does that seal work?
We think it'll work, but it may not work."
Well that aged well
*Queue music*
What's funny is the seal may actually work fine. But the position of the fins clearly does not. Fortunately they'd been planning to make that particular change for a few years. Unfortunately, that change won't come for the next two or three flights.
@@Asterra2 where are they gonna move them to? like away from the reentry side?
@chris-hayes I would expect they either use a wind tunnel or computer simulation to find an orientation or slight placement change that enables control in atmosphere but avoids the "flow of hot gas" that it seems to currently enable. To your point, it can't be "too far away"... perhaps even a mold of steel then plated with tiles to physically redirect the gas flow?
@@davidbonilla2253 Generally, I believe they are just moving up around the curve of the Ship (from the side on view when entering the atmosphere). That way the hinge and hinge gap are at least partially protected by the body of the ship. Control authority would be lower, but I'll take that trade-off with a little massaging of Size and Programming to get it back.
working at starbase in any capacity would be absolutely incredible
I can see it. Janitor/Test pilot. I wonder what the pay would be?
Incredibly bad working conditions, harassment and burnout, yes.
@@han5vkand you’ve never worked there you’ve only read that online
@@han5vkbetter than being behind a desk
@@AztecDread pathetic false dichotomy.
Hyped for another Starbase Tour! This one was certainly fun to watch with the hindsight of knowing how successful flight 4 ended up being 😀
Hi
Matt for your next Ksp video make an SSTO with the space shuttle cockpit parts and land at the surface with a big payload please
Agreed! Also cool to see you in the “wild” lol!
Elon looks so adorable on that thumbnail😂
«Boys let me show you my cool toys 🚀🚀»
when you consider something like, say, building a house can be plagued by all kinds of setbacks, things not arriving on time, things not fitting, moody crews, red tape - it's amazing the amount of work that actually gets done and how dedicated (or well paid) the crews at starbase and the peripherals are, shout out to the people working 24/7 to get us to mars.
Why would we want to be on mars? I am always amazed how much energy and dedication people, with aims that are clearly bullshit, have. They are working their asses off so a few people can suffocate on an inhabitable rock.🤣
@@loonateer Obviously, "we" doesn't include people like you. I'm amazed you even bothered to watch the video and leave a reply.
@@loonateer there is no good reason for going to any planet - but if we don't it's equally dumb. you can stay on earth, it really makes no difference to me.
@@jimdetry9420 i do find it hard to think of any reason other than having a back up planet, for going to mars - i want to go myself, i love the idea, but i do think that other than satisfying our curiosity, our desire for new things, there isn't any practical reason for going, anyone who does go is going to stay there, live there - in other words no real benefit to earth. it's a bit like asteroid mining, we can never bring anything from an asteroid back to earth (practically) (extinction event comes to mind) so we will stay in space. earth will not benefit unless we can move EVERYONE off earth and make it a nature preserve, which is what i'd lobby for.
@@HarryNicNicholas The only people who need a reason are the ones spending their time, effort and money on it. Personally, I think "satisfying our curiosity, our desire for new things" is a lot nobler than a lot of what society spends its money on. I'm almost 70 and have a lot of Tesla stock. My hope is that I get to spend that stock on a lunar vacation before I die.
What a class act. He treats this interviewer with so much respect. Musk also listens almost as if he knows he can learn something from this young man.
Thats because he actually has learned something from Tim - IN the last interview series Tim mentioned a design option regarding using autogenous gas pressurization. Elon looked at starship and said "you know that's actually a good idea". They made a corresponding design change
Sure, he owns him a flight to the moon he will never get.
A sign of a really smart person is listening to everyone as though they know something they don't. That is the only way to learn, and smart people are constantly learning from everything and everyone.
The most successful people are great listeners. You have to be.
@@MAC-nm5is TBF Tim asked confirmation that the Heavy Lift used a different system than Starship - if I recall correctly - and it triggered in Elon a question in his head like "Why DO we actually maintain a different system in the booster?". As he seemingly couldn't come up with a good answer, and probably saw advantages with interchangeability he decided there and then to have his engineers change the design. It's still awesome Tim was a triggering part of that process, but it was Elon that came up with the idea.
Elon - “I don’t know if anyone is going to copy us. It’s a hard thing to copy.”
China - “write that down! Write that down!”
China's dear leader flies around in a Boeing 747, an aircraft first designed and manufactured in the US back in the 1960s. Chinese enginners should start there. Once done, they can then turn their attention to more recent stuff.
Their aircraft copies from Russian planes are subpar at best, good luck on them copying this successfully
Yep, China launches more tonnage to orbit than anyone, other than SpaceX. It's not close between the two if that tells you how everyone else is doing.
@@atanumaulik7093We really need them to update to a modern Boeing plane 😮
America used to be the one copying/stealing British designs. It takes time.
Мое одно из первых любимых интервью Илона на заводе .Влюбилась сходу 😊😊❤❤ Тогда сразу пронеслась добрая , продвинутая мысль о Илоне, только ему могу в начале сказать , она для Илона 🙏🙏
From this interview, IFT-4 is far more successful than Elon's expectation.
"50/50"!
Why are Boeing planes falling apart? All the good technicians are at SpaceX!
@@KitaJabig It's not just that; they are using the original methodology for ship design, which is getting it right the first time. The only problem, is that by doing it the first time, you may end up finding a problem that you did an account for. Casein point what's happened to Starliner.
SpaceX, on the other hand, almost _gleefully_ sacrifice rockets in order to get useful data, by making imperfect designs to push the envelope in order to iterate to a better design.
And now? SpaceX has proven their point that iteration through their willingness to iterate using imperfect testbeds is the way forward.
If you have a complicated system like a rocket, you habe a lot of systems that need to work at the same time, for the whole system to work.
So in the last 50 years engineers tried to keep risk down, by using as much allready tried and proven tech as possible.
So RS-25 engine is used on SLS, because is allready used in the Shuttle and it self was based on the J-2.
This approach works, but a lot of 50 years old engineering decisions are carried over. Engineering wich was done without computers, Without CAD, FEM and CFD.
It is like basing your new car design on an old air cooled VW beetle engine from 1950.
So Space X is the first company to be bolt enough and have enough capital to design a system new from scratch.
So that it allready works that well only after 5 years is just a marvel.
Of course there are many little problems that are needed to be ironed out in the next 2-5 years, but by 2030 we are going to have a really reliable, reusable rocket the first time in history.
We are going to be able to build huge things in space. Space stations that are 100x the size of the ISS.
@@KitaJabig
All hires are DEI at Boeing now ..😂😂
Flat earthers must think Elon deserves an Oscar I mean... the dedication to the bit!! 😂
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I hear that Elon is a method actor!
The government conspiracy costing many many billions and a ton of actors on the SpaceX site must keep on going, to keep the silly masses in line. We can only keep the plebs in line and under our control if they think the earth is a sphere!
He has the coolest, shiniest props 😂
You and I could be friends. Well played, sir. 😆
2:30 the kid dropped the cheeto puff and still eats it, Hilarious! I love the children being around able to see the world changing from a young age
😂 good catch
We all learned the danger of eating sand the hard way
should have blessed it before eating it
Two second rule...
Those are funyuns
Elon in this video is just like a boy to show his toy room. Amazing tour.
That red OBS Ford at the beginning is mint.
And it's probably the most reliable and longest lasting vehicle on site.
I can’t believe how clean and organized everything at Starbase seems now!
Professionally taken care of the people there. How it should be in many work sites.
They probably have cleaning bots. Wait until Tesla masters Optimus humanoids and starts employing them here and on the Moon and Mars with AI + Vision and Sound.
Every area with vehicles is like this. The launch pads are less so, but at the Cape they're quite old too. This is all magnitudes larger than all I've seen in person. Area 59 where Dragon is prepared is an enormous clean room, and yet, tiny compared to this.
@@simplelife88393 If you watched, you would have seen one of the employees cleaning the floor with a ride on machine.We did ours at work every Friday the old fashion way. Sweep down and then mop down. Our floors didn't shine as much as Star Factory's because we had added anti-skid to our epoxy coating. But they were clean.
@@amirshahab3400NO Q A L
I really appreciate him taking so much time to explain all this stuff to us nerds who care. The type of return on his time is crazy to think about.
It’s so easy to get caught up in the importance of all of this, but then I ask my coworkers about it and they don’t even know what SpaceX even is. I guess it’s a somewhat niche interest.
This exactly. This is what you get when someone loves what they’re doing.
Hello it's me Elon musk....I really appreciate your honesty and kindness 🌹🌹🌹
that got built quick crazy how flawless construction has become
All I could think was strap all 3 of those boosters together in the bay, and make a super super heavy 😂
😭😂😂😂
Someone's gonna try that on Kerbal
Suggested by his son x I'm sure, lol
s3x heavy
Super-d-duper heavy
It is crazy to see a CEO that understands all the engineering. Can tell in enjoys talking about the project and what's going on.
He's also the Chief Engineer.
Try to make sense out of his hyperloop whitepaper. Dont you ask yourself how someone bringing a brain fart like that to paper has the capacity to understand anything? Props to the real SpaceX engineers making things happen despite having to work around Elon xD
@@hernerweisenberg7052 I clicked on this comment to see the hate 🤣 More will come. You all need to work on what's really eating you up. Maybe take a break from the internet.
@@hernerweisenberg7052 hyperloop was just an experiment and in the noone got hurt not eve nyour tax money. your second sentence is complete ignorance, without him none of this wouldve existed, hes the reason why billions of your tax money is wasted on other rockets from nasa
@@uncoiledfish2561 Let me guess, you're still on the waiting list for a Cybertruck?
the scale of this factory is insane, it's also hard to judge the size of the BFR aka starship, but seeing Elon walk past a segment really opens your eyes to how big this rocket really is
Nice to know I'm not the only one that still thinks of it as the BFR in their head.
I've never seen such a humble person with such intellect. So passionate about something, and more than excited to share everything about it. Class act. The man is ALWAYS thinking.
It’s amazing when you realize that Elon is multitasking in real time when he’s being interviewed. Lol
That's exactly what I was thinking ! I'd pay to "hear" his mind for a few minutes hahaha
He's not just answering, he's thinking about the answer and revisiting whether that answer is really correct.😊
LOL! First time I ever heard brain misfires described as "multitasking." Each neuron bounces around inside Elmo's head for 10 minutes before finding a place to land. 🤪
Best example of this starts at 1:00:49
Seems more like he is just bad a speaking. Kind of annoying.
Tim, I think Elon truly enjoys having conversations with you. I know for a FACT he sees you as one of his peers, when you asked him about the thrusters on the last interview you did with him and gave him the idea, I forget if it was cold thrust or whatever, and he knows you've learned your rocket engineering and physics to a tee, but he is SO thoughtful answering you it makes for a wonderful view inside his head.. Thank you for all the hard work you've put in Tim, truly and honestly I appreciate it with all of my nerd heart.
You sound good and I really like it but how are you doing and where are you from?
Glad to see that Elon is a Space:1999 fan. Tim really knows how to get him to talk. Elon seems relaxed around him.
Imagine the media giving Elon this opportunity without dissing him.
I understand him better than a vast majority of people; like him, I'm on the autism spectrum. The only difference I've noticed between me and him is that he is a terrible narcissist, and I am very much the opposite.
When I speak of the similarities, I'm referring to how many people with autism and ADHD have a tendency to go 110% into things that interest us the most. Things that don't interest us, often irritate or bore us. For him, dealing with the media is both frustrating and very much against his strengths.
But dealing with Tim is like talking to a friend who shares his passion. I realized how brilliant Elon is through these videos because he actually has a grasp on what he is accomplishing here.
The key thing about SpaceX is that it isn't just Elon who's doing this. If there's one thing Elon is good at, it is following through with a vision, and picking the right people for the job.
Tesla and _especially_ SpaceX are great examples of this, and through both companies he has dramatically changed the future of humanity, because even if Tesla goes under, the contributions to EV usage will stay.
And with SpaceX, he inspired a great many companies to follow their lead, with the realization that, yes, humans can in fact have a rocket return to Earth in one piece.
I may dislike Elon because of his political views and how he treats a number of his employees, but I can never deny the fact that he is dramatically changed the future of humanity, and that we need him, even if I hate to admit it. And Tim is doing a great service by interviewing him, because he is giving a lot of people a lot of useful insight on both Elon's positive contributions, and SpaceX itself.
@@TheEDFLegacy I think he isn't a narcissist any more than your average person. He just has SOO much money he doesn't need to care any more, he has been rich for so long he has changed.
@@TheEDFLegacy I respect your honesty and the fact that you may dislike someone but able to recognized their achievements. I myself don't agree with Elon's way of living (spiritual wise), as one striving to be a Christian, but I do respect and admire all his intelligence, knowledge, leadership and achievements, but I would never follow his way of living, from a spiritual perspective, I'm a nerd just as he is but Spiritually wise, not so much.
@@MsArchitectschannel It's hard to say. He is very anti-worker in a lot of his actions, and how he treats a lot of his Tesla employees. A lot of his political advocacy is toword a lot of rather harmful ideals. It's between those two things that makes me question a lot about him. I like his fun side, and I love his brilliance, but those are the parts are what make me uncomfortable.
Hus name ELON is 4 letters but work is on another level!
A few takeaways from this, but what stood out is that Elon really doesn't mind having his kids around at work, in fact it looks like he enjoys it. Not many directors can say the same. Also - looks like hes totally chilled. Doesn't mind the spotlight but also isn't trying to be perfect for it. The mark of a confident man.
Also - knowing that this interview was before flight 4, its interesting that Tim had a few ideas that I reckon Elon did some learning with - like the last time - for instance the towers simulating a catch when the booster returned and did a water landing. Seemed like he hadn't thought of it but it made perfect sense.
Part of it is autism spectrum- role-playing or acting or being fake takes a lot of mental and emotional energy, and one never really is very good at it. It's far easier and far less stressful just to be your normal self all the time.
I do.wish Elon would have never fought that sumo wrestler, his neck still bothers him constantly
It's nice to have the kids at work, but need to be super careful.
One of the qualities that makes me really like Elon Musk... is that when he's talking to you he's really thinking... and he's not thinking about how to present to you, how to say it, or the optics of his words... he's actually thinking about.... the topic and question that you're discussing like it's the most important thing in the world at that moment.
I can listen to this man all day.
yes he seems very passionate about his craft
Yeah very different to Jeff’s interview tbh
@@lvcxpr1777 I agree but I also just think that's who he is. When you talk to him he wants to make sure he gives good thought to what your asking.
Yea he seems to give his full attention.
None of this incessant fawning over him would be necessary if any of it were remotely true.
He looks so happy when talking about Space X.
He looks like an 80's cabbage patch doll. aka... like a loser.
You just said it that’s a good idea talking about landing on the moon and habitats starship could be implemented like that on mars to start colonizing
34:53 the sync tho!! 😭😭, both of you are in tune with each other, nerding out rocket stuff!! Love it!!
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We've got a Starbase, and a Starship...and by God, we're gonna see a Star Fleet. Thanks, Elon.
Sadly he's a satanist
Hi there! Jesus says to you today: "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
May God bless you! 😊
@@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot Amen
It'll be some time before we get the Federation. 😊
@@MrChongkahtze That's for 2040 😅
I like that he has his children close by, they listen, they learn, they're respectful too.
Last time Elon had Marvin the dog following him around and now he has the whole Starbase daycare with him
Why does the richest guy in the world have to bring his kids to work? I am sure he can afford full time daycare for his kids. This is something you do when there is an emergency on a Saturday and you have to bring your children with you.
This should be something we all do and have a part of our culture to be honest. Get them exploring and interested early instead of hiding away doing nonsense all day.
Hey is busy, this is his way of spending time with his kids, easier to have a babysitter following him to care for the kids while they are with him and he gets few quality moments with his kids! I think it is also good for the kids to see their dad in full spectrum through work, home and all
@@jordanmazzucait's quite obvious you don't like or love children.
Why would he have his children next to him, if he can? You actually ask this question ❓⁉️
Quite obvious you don't like children, and even of you do have them, you probably don't love them.
@@jordanmazzucaand to answer the question: because he loves them and wants them near him
That red Ford truck in the video is nice.
Scale of his / spacex operations is incredible. Can't wrap my head around the size of everything.
If I was the PEZ candy CEO, I would be making a starship dispenser with starlink satellite shaped candy. ASAP.
Yeah I’m going to 3d print one, thanks for the idea.
I'll buy one!!!!!!!!
😂
I would buy one
How abt candy in shape of Elon comes out lol
thanks tim and elon for the interview!!
Thanks for being a racist turd! Love it!