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So what I was, what I'm
gonna go through to tonight is the overall,

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overall sort of path to making life
multiplanetary. So we're doing a lot

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of good things at SpaceX. I
mean, Starlink is incredible providing connectivity throughout

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the world and also you know,
paying for a lot of what we're doing

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here. And Falcon nine is the
primary left launch vehicle for Earth, just

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doing more non SpaceX launches than anything
else. And but Starship is what is

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well Starship. Starship is the first
design of a rocket that is actually capable

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of making life multiplanetary, where success
is one of the possible outcomes. Uh,

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no rocket before this has had the
potential to extend life to another planet.

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And and I'll sort of wax esoteric
here for a minute because this may

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sound sort of unusual, but when
you think about the question of where are

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the aliens, which I get asked
a lot, this is like the Fermi

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paradox, where are the aliens?
And I've not seen any evidence that there

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are aliens on Earth. A lot
of people think there are aliens on Earth,

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and I'm like, great, I'd
like to meet one, you know.

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For a while there, when I
was getting my green card and never

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gets an alien registration card. I'm
like, okay, but this question of

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where the aliens, I think a
very profound one because I'm aware of no

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evidence of aliens whatsoever, which means
that I think we're probably alone. And

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if you look at the history of
Earth, like how long has Earth been

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around? Assuming that physics is correct, the universe is about thirteen point eight

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billion years old. Earth is about
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When you think about how old is
civilization, I think the right measuring point

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for civilization in my view, or
a good measuring point, would be the

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advent of writing. So the first
writing is generally considered to be the ancient

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Sumerians. Where are they now?
They died out, but about fifty five

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hundred years ago was archaic pre cuneiform. In fact, I suggest it's like

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an interesting rabbit hole to read about
the history of writing. So if you

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consider, say, like, okay, civilization, I think if you don't

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have writing, you kind of need
writing for civilization. So it's only been

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around for like a little of a
five thousand years out of four and a

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half billion years that Earth has been
around. And the thirteen point eight billion

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years of the universe, so we're
all of human civilization is basically the blink

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of an eye. It's like it's
a fraction, it's almost it's nothing.

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And I think that that probably means
that that consciousness is incredibly rare and perhaps

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fleeting. It may not last for
very long, because otherwise we would I

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think we would have seen aliens,
some kind of sign of aliens. I

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think the most likely explanation is that
consciousness is so rare that and does that

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consciousness actually extend to another planet?
Does that consciousness extend to another star system?

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I mean, ultimately, if we're
able to become a space bearing civilization,

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a multiplanet species, and ultimately a
multi stellars species, and go out

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there and explore all these star systems, I think we may find that there

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are many long dead one planet civilizations. And as you've heard me say before,

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we don't want to be one of
those lame one planet civilizations. I

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mean, we want to be a
multiplanet civilization, ultimately, be a multi

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stellar civilization, be out there among
the stars, like you know, make

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science fiction not fiction forever, kind
of make star star trek real. That's

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uh. So, that's why I
think that there's actually there's this high urgency

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to making life multiplanetary because this is
the first time in four and a half

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billion year history that it's been possible
to extend life or consciousness beyond Earth,

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and we've got to do that while
civilization is still strong. So that's the

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overarching goal of the company is extend
life sustainably to another planet. Mars is

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the only option, really, and
to do so ideally before World War three

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or some kind of bad thing.
The key thing is that we need enough

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people and enough tonnage on Mars such
that Mars can survive and continue consciousness even

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if something would happen to Earth.
Now I still think obviously we wouldn't.

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I'm not talking about abandoning Earth or
anything like that, and we want Earth

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to be as good as possible for
as long as possible, but there are

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certain things that may be outside of
our control. So we want to just

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get Mars to be a self sustaining
civilization as quickly as possible, and I

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think this can be done in around
twenty years. So and this this giant

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starship factory that we're building is obviously
key to that, and the launch sites

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that we're building here and at the
cape and elsewhere in the future will be

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key to that. Oh, it's
wild that that this uh, this strange

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spot. This we're basically on a
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beach, and that is actually the
gateway to Mars. Has to be like

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if this was a movie, you'd
be like, no way, come on,

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too implosible. But it's it's real
and it's due to you guys.

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Congratulations. This is the side by
side of the three flights. You can

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see our thrust a weight improved significantly. So we've made tremendous progress from flight

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one to flight two to flight three, and we got flight four coming up

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in about a month or so.
And with flight four we should if we

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get you know, if fate smiles
upon us, we will get through the

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high heating regime and smash into the
ocean at a controlled spot and the hopefully

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be able to also do this with
with the booster uh land on essentially a

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virtual tower. If the landing on
the virtual tower with the booster works,

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then we will actually try with flight
five to come back and land on the

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tower. No, that's very much
a success oriented schedule, but it is

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in the realm of possibility. But
I would say, like the odds of

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us actually being able to catch the
booster with the me Gozilla arms this year,

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I think, I don't know,
I don't want to tempt a fate

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knock on wood, but I think
the odds of actually catching the booster with

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the tower probably like eighty ninety percent
this year, which is insane. Like

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actually, when we first talked about
it, it sounded so bat shit crazy.

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We're going to have a giant it's
like literally bigger than me Gozilla from

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the movie that you would catch like
the like the biggest flying object ever made

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with mechanical arms out of the air. But we're going to do it,

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so let's get Yeah, it may
not work, you know, necessarily the

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foot time, but you know it
will work. So really, Starship is

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really the key to making life multiplanetary
and preserving the light of light of consciousness.

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That's what it's all about, and
it may end up being the most

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important thing that that we have a
do. I think that like the light

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of consciousness is like this this tiny
candle in a in a vast darkness,

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and that candle has only been lit
for a very short time, and it

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could easily go out, So we
obviously want to preserve that that the tiny

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light of consciousness on Earth but extended
to Mars and then ultimately to the rest

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of the Solar System and then start
going to other star systems. And I

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mean, I won't be allowed to
see that, but unless I'm like frozen

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or something other. But but you
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discover many civilizations that maybe lasted a
million years or two million years or ten

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million years, but a civilization that
lasted a million years, which would be

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you know, vastly longer than our
civilization has lasted. I mean, that's

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only the third decimal point, so
like thirteen point eight billion something something years.

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If you're if your civilization lasts a
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third digit past the decimal point goes
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So I mean, i'd say,
like we should think of, like how

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do we make civilization last a million
years? You know, we often get

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caught up in like the day to
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have at least a million year civilization, if not one hundred million year civilization

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or a billion year civilization. So
absolutely crucial to that goal is becoming a

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multiplanet species. People and people often
people often ask why why Mars. Well,

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there's not a lot of options.
Frankly, so uh, Venus is

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a superheated, high pressure acid bath, so not not what you don't don't

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want to go to Venus. And
then the Moon is close, but it

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doesn't have an atmosphere, the gravity
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and it's missing a lot of key
resources. So also the the the the

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insulating value of the Moon relative relative
to Mars is much less. So if

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there's something that takes out of like
let's say there's a World War three global

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therm and nuclear warfare, they're probably
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so whereas it's way harder to shoot
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it coming and probably have some time
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the value of Mars, the difficulty
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to Mars, actually has an insulating
benefit to the for the continuation of consciousness,

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even if there's something terrible happens on
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go beyond Mars, there's there's some
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of Jupiter. Starship would ultimately be
capable of uh of reaching anywhere in the

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Solar System, and then we'll need
something so a new level of technology to

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go to other star systems. But
if we can at least get to Mars,

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then other star systems are hopeless.
I mean, it's a fixer upper

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of a planet. Okay, need
some work, but it is. It's

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really the only option for becoming multiplanetary
and long term, we can warm up

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Mars and we can there would be
we can densify the atmosphere and there'd be

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a liquid ocean on about forty percent
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it an earthlike planet long term.
So let's see, we've learned a tremendous

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amount from when we started the company
and at first could we're unable to get

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even a small rocket or of it
to now where we've done three hundred and

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twenty seven successful launchers, almost three
hundred landings. In fact, you know,

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give it a few weeks and we'll
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and sixty one reflights. So I
many times I was told that reusability was

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it was impossible, and even if
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be no point because nobody would want
to fly rockets that much. But now

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we routinely fly and land the booster
and we recover the fairing. So we've

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learned a tremendous amount from the Falcon
program that is then feeding into the Starship

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program, and Falcon and Starlink all
what obviously keep the company going. So

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I just like to give a hand
to the Falcon team for the incredible work

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that they're doing. And then Dragon, well forty five launches a Dragon.

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It's amazing, and we've flown fifty
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space station and everyone has come home
safely, which is the most important thing.

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So you know, incredible work by
the Dragon team. So Skim the

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hand that was couldn't ask for a
better outcome. And Starlink actually, if

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you look at the sort of the
plot of the all the satellites going around

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Earth, this look kind of scary
actually, but there's six thousand satellites in

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operation, over six thousand and ten
thousand lasers, almost three million customers.

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So Starlink is doing a lot of
good people for people on Earth who don't

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either don't have Internet access or it's
very expensive, and so it's doing doing

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a lot of good, you know, on Earth, because when I say

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we want to be a multiplanet species, i'm you know, we obviously want

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to Earth to be as good as
possible and Mars to be great. So

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Stallink is doing a tremendous amount of
that, and we're learning a lot by

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having this big fleet. Stalling will
also be very important for high bound width

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communication to and on Mars. So
from it from a tiny rocket to Falcon

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nine, which is a much bigger
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then Falcon Heavy and then Starship as
Starship will get bigger obviously, you know

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this this year, if things go
according to plan, SpaceX will do probably

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ninety percent of all Earth Master orbit, and then China will do about six

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percent, and the rest of the
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is pretty wild. And then once
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nineteen nine percent of all Earth master
orbit. What you kind of have to

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do in order to build a city
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also build a lunar base as well, so it might as well along the

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way so you can see the actually
Falcon one was really yeah, half a

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ton to orbit ling grief slight error
on the slide there, so Falcon was

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about half a ton to orbit.
Falcon nine, depending on inexpendable mode I

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would do probably twenty five tons to
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seventy. Anyway, these these are
just obviously rapidly increasing numbers, and Starship

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in its final configuration or its final
form, we'll probably do well over two

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hundred tons to orbit with full reusability
and be able to fly multiple times a

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day. So and then there's recovering
and reusing the ship. The ship will

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take longer, so the ship.
I think we will want to have at

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least two consecutive successes of a given
design that's land at a specific point in

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the ocean or smash into a specific
point of the ocean before we try to

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bring it back to the launch site, because we do we do not want

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to rain debris over Mexico or the
US. So my guess is probably next

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year is when we will be able
to reuse Starship, but I think it's

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I think it's highly likely that this
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ship the ship side of it to
a controlled point in the ocean and have

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it basically land on a virtual virtual
tower in somewhere in the in the Pacific

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or the Indian Ocean. And we've
already proven that we can do the final

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phase of landing, so coming from
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the ship and landing vertically, we
proved that right here. So what we

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just really we just need to be
confident that we can get through the high

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heating portion of the app of re
entry reliably, and then we will bring

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the ship back and we'll land on
the tower as well. And we're going

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to build more mechazillas, so there's
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I think and then two launch towers
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have four launch towers for uh for
Starship, probably you know, by sometime

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next year. So we're aiming to
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system operational around the middle of next
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azimuths that are sort of fly overland. So I think what we should probably

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expect is that we do the kind
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new here, build the build the
rockets, and then probably most of the

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operational launches would be from the Cape. So this year we're planning to build

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another roughly six UH boosters and shifts, and that production rate will increase a

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lot next year. That's why we're
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to build a lot more shifts than
boosters, especially for Mars, because it's

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the you'll actually want to use the
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it for raw materials on Mars because
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Most of the shifts you wouldn't want
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just use them for raw materials.
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back, and I think we want
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because they're more likely to want to
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But I think most of most of
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probably never come back to Earth.
So and we'll need to ramp production to

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pretty high numbers, like I think
ultimately probably a ship every like multiple ships

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per day basically, and then next
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propellant transfer. It's hard to make
this not look a little bit norty uh

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because it's two ships connecting and doing
a fluid transfer. Just what it is,

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but it is this is actually a
very important uh. This is a

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very important step on going to Mars
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ship to orbit and then do orbital
refilling kind of like aerial refueling, and

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and that's that's really you need about
about five or six uh refilling missions for

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every one mission that goes to Mars, so roughly five to one. So

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and this will also be very important
for the Otomis program for the Nest to

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get back to the Moon. So
we want to have a ship that is

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well, it's going to be a
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don't need a heat shield, and
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build a moon base moon based ALFA
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Moon like that would be super exciting. And so you'd have a bunch of

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ships that are specialized for going to
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come back to They never land back
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with propellant propellant tankers to get orbital
refell So in terms of performance, we've

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made traumatic progress on every level for
Starship. It's remarkable that we can see

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the raptor engines and how it has
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hundred and eighty five tons to two
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probably the booster engines will aim to
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thirty tons of thrust, which would
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leftoff. So and then the Raptor
of three also will not need a heat

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shield. So Rafter three looks looks
very simple, and it is actually simplified

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in a lot of ways, but
a lot of the complexity is hidden because

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we have integral cooling channels in many
plots of the engine that don't exist in

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Raptor two. So in order to
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to be very resilient. But that
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It looks like Rafter three looks like
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actually those parts have either been deleted
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And like I said, with integral
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the secondary plumbing has also been integrated
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chamber jacket. And yeah, so
it's much simpler. Well, it's it's

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it's yeah, it's actually extremely difficult
to build rafter three, but that it

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will be easy to integrate and will
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be more reliable. So h well, then can go for a while.

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flame tail on Starship and how long
it is, it's a it's a very

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long flame tail, which is due
to the fact that the chamber pressure,

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well, it's it's just outputting a
lot more yeah, a lot more gas

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at a higher velocity. But I
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thousand feet long. It's like more
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longer. So yeah, and inevtably, the rocket grows in height. So

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Starship two raiming for like I currently
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tons to orbit. So the current
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hundred tons, and then Starship three
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yeah, it's gone from around seven
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Nine. I think we'll end up
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thousand tons of thrust, probably seven
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and at least ten meters taller.
We'll see tends to grow, yeah,

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exactly, so it probably grows a
bit more than that even Really, so

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if you look at Falcon nine,
it's it's very We're not going to do

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the length to diameter of falconine.
That would be crazy, but uh,

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Falcon nine is a very long rocket, and so I suspect it will probably

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get a bit longer than this.
But at two hundred tons per flight fully

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reusable, that is that is pretty
incredible. And yeah, it will be

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on the order of five hundred feet
toll and then we're at this this hundred

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there's thousands of design improvements here,
so I mean, I think maybe the

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most one of the most profound things
is Starship three will cost less per flight

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than Falcon one. So that's the
difference between if you've got a fully reusable

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rocket or an expandable rocket. The
fully reusable rocket with low cost propellant and

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or touching this pressurization actually costs less
than a tiny expandable rocket. So and

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it'll do. Like I said,
Falcon one is about half a ton to

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orbit. The Starship three will be
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the cost of a Falcon one.
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to get the cost per flight to
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three million dollars. So these are
sort of unthinkable numbers from the you know,

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nobody ever thought that this was possible. But we're not breaking any physics

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to achieve this, so this is
within the bound without breaking physics, we

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can do this. So the Mars
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more. And if you look closely
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home and transfer from Earth over to
Mars overit and that's basically to stay to

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people, the Starlink system that you're
buying is helping get humanity to Mars.

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I think it's pretty cool. So
roughly every two years thousands of ships would

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depart from Earth to Mars. It
would look like Battlestar Galactica, but in

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a good way, you know,
hopefully without being chased by the cylons.

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But it would be an incredible thing
to see these thousands of ships departing every

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twenty six months from Mars. What
this diagram is basically saying is that for

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getting to Mars, we would essentially
create a kind of a propellant depot ship.

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The propellant depot would look more like
a hot dog than like a spear.

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Surely, just mix a long ship
with a lot of insulation and we'd

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fill that chip up. And then
shortly before or as they're going to Mars,

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the ships would take off with a
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reach or of it with very almost
no propellant, and then get refilled

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by the tanker and then go to
Mars and land, go all the way

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to Mars with over two hundred tons
of useful payload. Then on Mars,

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in the beginning, we would,
I think we would simply reuse the ship

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materials, so most of the ships
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you'd want to bring the ships back
so you could reuse them. And for

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that we would need to create methane
H four and oxygen O two on Mars,

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which you can do with a T
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is CO two and there's plenty of
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of like tailor made for well.
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oxygen system is because you can make
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like not that's not a total walk
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readily available to create methane and oxygen
on Mars. So so you build a

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propellant depot and bring the ships back
and build out as quickly as possible a

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self sustaining civilization on Mars. And
we want to get that. We want

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to get the cost of going to
Mars such that almost anyone could afford it,

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so like if somebody were to just
work hard on Earth, save up

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and that they'd be able to go
to Mars. So it's like anyone.

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Ideally, almost anyone could go to
Mars. And I think you'll see a

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lot of governments also sponsor people.
And ultimately we want to get so there's

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a kind of an optimal landing zone
on Mars where you have resources, so

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you've got access to water or frozen
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poles, so you can use solar
power. It would it would be nice

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to use nuclear. I don't know
if we'll get the approval, but nuclear

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would be very handy on Mars because
you can use the heat and you can

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generate electricity. So and then you
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below sea level, so if Mars
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quite deep in the ocean, at
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let's see that's Mars. Kind of
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between the pole and the equator in
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If the deeper it is, the
more you can use the atmosphere to

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break and the atmosphere density is higher. So these are all the things that

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would have to be developed soon.
As people ask me are we developing these

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things, I'm like, not yet, because this is the cart, and

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we need the horse first. So
the rocket is the horse, and then

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this is the cart. But ultimately
we'll need all these things. Less of

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power generation mining in general, ice
mining, propellant production, long duration life

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support, construct, a lot of
construction, and the global communication. So

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I think this would open up a
lot of opportunities for entrepreneurs that want to

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create any to create things on Mars. Whether that is a propellant well,

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I think we'll have to do the
propellant depot. But whether it's like iron

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ore refining or a pizza joint or
a bar, you know, there'll be

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an opportunity to do all the things
that we like on Earth on Mars,

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like a Mars bar would be yeah, great, So I think I think

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probably a rough order of magnitude guess
for what you need, how many people

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do you need for a self sustaining
city is about a million and several million

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tons of cargo. So yeah,
which we can do, and we can

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do this in twenty years. But
like I said, in order for it

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to be self sustaining, you actually
need the entire base of industry. You

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can't be missing any element. So
that's that's really what's going to take take

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a while, is do you have
everything you need to survive on Mars.

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At that point, the future of
consciousness is asshired. So if you do

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ten launches a day at two hundred
tons per launch, uh, a million

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and a half tons to Leo per
opportunity. You net that out to a

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quarter million tons to Mars per opportunity, So that means you can get to

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a million tons in about eight years, since the opportunities are two years apart.

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So I think it's pretty doable,
and I'm like, we're actually going

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to do this. We get well, you know, we are actually going

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to do it, which is insane
to think. So millions of tons to

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Mars. Yeah, wow, we're
going to build a lot of vehicles.

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So yeah, several thousand vehicles per
year that's what we'll need, which really

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quite quite doable. Actually it sounds
like a lot, but it's very doable.

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Yeah, if you're compared it to
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small number. Of course, this
is much bigger than a car, but

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even if you look at the total
tonnage the it's still very it's very doable

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to build several thousand vehicles a year. So that's what we need to do,

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and we're gonna do it, and
then long term will probably have some

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offshore launch lights. You can just
imagine all of these starships waiting a otverit

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for the planets to align, and
then this gigantic starfleet taking home from Mars.

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All right, so we're actually gonna
do this. And when you think

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about where this started out, this
was literally just like a sandbar where we're

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standing right now. And now look
at what we've done here, and that

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we've gotten three flights off of starship
and we've got a fourth, fourth one

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coming up, and we're building a
gigantic factory that we'll be able to output

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a massive number of ships. So
it's surreal, but but it's real.

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So we're actually gonna do this.
We're gonna take humanity to Mars, and

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I have confident you can do it, so