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- Why is Starship so big? This is a question we found ourselves asking... and when we say big, its MASSIVE. So join us as we dig deeper and explain, and try to put it all into context!
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Mars....... LMFAO, yeah sure.
It would be nice that we including the European Union. Build a space station ship yard in orbit. So we can build bigger.
Love what you do
👍
Starship is not actually big, just the biggest yet for our species. Thousands of years ago much bigger spaceships have been here, read your Bible and the Bagavadgita.
I love that Space TH-camrs all support one another. Surprisingly one of the least toxic communities. Go Starship!
@@wordwizard3912 thats illogical google the word.
@@wordwizard3912 Meanwhile, your stupidity is real
@@wordwizard3912 are u a troll? Cuz if u are serious then you need to reconsider your life
Its probably cuz space community = smart people
@@wordwizard3912 What's all fake? JW
@2:37 "The first stage booster is called 'Super Heavy' because of its delicate and fragile proportions" 🤣🤣
I was reading this when it happened.
I don't want a ride on a delicate and fragile booster full of fuel. Nope
What I love about all these new spacecraft is that they all look like the spacecraft from 1930s comics like Buck Rogers.
True!
thats exactly what I was thinking about
Very Ralph Macquarie, I'm sure its intentional.
@@mokzilla9330 I'm pretty sure it's both intentional and coincidental at the same time. Starship looks how does because of the astronautical and aeronautical physics calculations and simulations done to determine the best and most efficient and cost effective design. So the way it looks is of course intentional. While I never heard of Buck Rodgers or his comics, I can assume he intentionally designed spaceships in them from his imagination. It is actually a coincidence that the actual best design for the real life SpaceX Starship and the ones in those old comics look similar, but it's also very cool coincidence.
@@Mindwipe96 you've never heard of Buck Rodgers?
"Why is Starship so Big?"
To make other rockets and spacecraft feel totally inadequate and deeply insecure?
XD
Time to cancel it feelings matter
@@thebush6077
Ha! Of course, that is what needs to be done. Feelings matter far more than space exploration.
Man I might cry when I finally get to see this thing make its first mission.
@James Quinlan man: i do
The first step is done. As of May 5, 2020, starship SN 15 HAS LANDED!!!
Im sure by then the CGI will be much improved and will give you what you want
@@fkucutube Haha! I'm sure by then CGI will have improved so much that you'll _still_ buy into faked conspiracies.
It's not like some black sheep among "sceptics" don't use CGI in order to prey on idiots like yourself.
Admittedly, I don't know you, but I've heard that CGI argument many times and it speaks for a general position (which is also why my reply is much longer than your comment).
NASA, ESA, SpaceX, Roscosmos etc. regularly use CGI for illustration purposes. Some things are just explained more easily with some nice graphics, starting with the problem that nobody floats in space with a space-suit and a camera in order to capture external ("3rd person view") rocket or satellite footage, so there are very good reasons to use CGI for illustrations, without any intentions to mislead or cheat. The thing is: it's no secret that some footage is highly edited or entirely computer-generated. There is no hiding.
You should also ask yourself about plausibility and motive. It's not plausible that hundreds of thousands of people involved in the space industry do their jobs without a single wistle-blower or death-bed confession over so many decades.
Motive: what I usually hear then is "tax money". That doesn't add up, either. The buildings of these agencies exist, people go to work there, they get paid every month, there is plenty of evidence that all the "hardware" (rockets and facilities for their construction, launch sites, museum objects etc.) exist. All that costs so much money that there is no real profit to be made by stealing tax money (and SpaceX is a private company: they do receive tax money, but only for fulfilling a function and delivering results, like transporting people to ISS).
Now compare all that to the typical alleged "proof" from conspiracy websites: 99% is already debunked, the rest is only a matter of time. But there's another problem: you can buy into a conspiracy out of stupidity or lack of scientitic education, but there are also many "faked fakes" online, where people manipulate original footage for fun in order to fool people like you (to give an example: the deepfake Nixon speech about the moonlanding disaster). So here's the motive for people to make up and spread conspiracy stories: fun! The more convincing the story is, the more it is liked and shared, the happier the author. You think you see beyond CGI tricks, but in reality you're far more of a CGI victim than any people of science. To say it with your own words: CGI gives guys like YOU "what you want". That confirmation bias must give you a lot of satisfaction, right?
@Saksham Shukla I cant wait, will be a historic event.
Enjoyed your video. Lots of great information. A couple of corrections. Firstly, the main issue with getting into Earth orbit is not distance from the centre of the planet. It is hard because the mass of the Earth and the density of the atmosphere. This means that you have to punch vertically through the densest part of the atmosphere to get through it as fast as possible then pitch over to speed up to around mach 25 horizontal to the surface of the Earth. Typical low Earth orbit is only about 500 km above the surface. Given that the radius of the Earth is about 6,400 km, the force of gravity at 500 km altitude is not significantly different to that at the surface of the Earth. "Zero G" occurs because you are travelling parallel to the surface at such a speed that the amount you fall drops you to the same altitude, so you remain in orbit. Or, to put it another way, the outward radial acceleration is equal to the acceleration of gravity. To get out of orbit and away from Earth, you need to accelerate to escape velocity. Of course, once you are in deep space, distance from Earth will become relevant and you will leave Earth's gravitational well. Secondly, the payload of Starship is not "thousands of tons", but around 100-150 t.
Hi Mchael, I've been scrolling through the comments. Ricky has replied to comments that came after yours, so it's not clear why he hasn't replied to yours. I just submitted my own comment with corrections, but most likely the window of opportunity has passed. (As in, Ricky probably not reading further comments to this video)
Thanks
Dude, you are the “cat’s pajamas”! That was just an awesome brief on Starship for the lay person. The best I have seen and I have watched many videos. The more I watch you and your presentations, the more I appreciate what you’re doing. For what it is worth, you’re getting better every episode. Thanks for such a great overview of Starship and all of the other presentations you work your ass off putting together for us. Your channel is educational and informative and provides clarity on subjects that often are complicated for those of us that are not necessarily engineers. Well done!!!!
@Mike: that was very well said . Wish I had said it. Came here to say something like that but I'll just agree with you and make reference to "what Mike said" .
I saw the title and thought, "Duh." Then you knocked it out of the park. Awesome work. Thank you for what you do!
lol... yeah I am glad to hear that... hope you'll subscribe and join us... this is a good look at what we're hoping to do here on this channel going forward!
@@TwoBitDaVinci
The reason Musk immediately donated 30 millions to schools after SN11 is to avoid lawsuits about contaminating private and public property with the consequences of his eccentric idiosyncratic ideas.
Most people can not save even a million in their lifetime???
@@reasonerenlightened2456 you’re right, he should be normal like everyone else! It’s a shame we have eccentric, idiosyncratic innovators who rapidly progress our technology. I mean, PayPal, Tesla...the audacity of this man, with his successful attempts at accelerating the advancement of autonomous electric vehicles, e-commerce, and now human space flight?!
And it’s especially a shame that he’s donated the millions of dollars that “most people” haven’t saved, to fund and improve their public education. 😂🤦♀️
@@hayleyyn
First, Musk is a product of circumstances, not a driver of destiny. Stop idolising him.
Second, $30 million for a multi-billionaire like Musk is more or less what $9 is for a minimum wage worker.
Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX, etc. are not there to help the human-people, those entities help only businesses by enabling faster wealth harvesting from the lifeforce of the human-people.
What would be really impressive is if one of those multi-billionaires comes up with a politico-economic system which results in a topology of optimal Wealth and Power distribution among the humans to ensure their dignified existence in perpetuity.
(Such multi-billionaire would be a really extraordinary human being worthy of worshiping and idolising.)
Sadly he didn’t. He doesn’t understand how rockets work and got most of it embarrassingly wrong.
Freedom Seven looks like a gnat next to Starship. Quite stunning to contemplate something that big getting launched!
TH-cam recommended this video to me. Sometimes, TH-cam nails it!! :-)
So glad to hear it Sean!!
Same!
Awesome video man! Oh and by the way at 9:20 the reentry heating ironically has very little to do with friction, but it's the compression of the air that heats it so much (like pumping a bike pump, and you feel it warm to the touch).
Your best one yet, thank you for the overview.
Glad you liked it and thank yoU! this is a look at the shape of things to come!
@@TwoBitDaVinci thank you for making this easier to understand, the most I know about rockets was from building them in the rocket club I was in, in elementary school😜
15:54 "Starship Is so big bc... [...] it needs to be..." that got me the chills and made my eyes wet, i mean, the implications...
"First, we burn stuff." Then after 200,000 years of social and technological evolution, how do we get around? How do rockets generate thrust? By burning stuff.
Wait till you see how they generate electricity...
@@gauravtejpal8901 water, solar, wind and hydrothermal in my country.
@@tafftastic The same methods in my country + couple of nuclears. I was talking about Turbines. They spin the turbines either by dropping water on them or by using steam...
It's going to be mindblowing to see it in its full stack eventually! Can't even comprehend how tall it'll look when you're standing right next to it. Superb video man! Loved this.
13:08 "Degrees Kelvin"? Contrary to the Celsius scale, the Kelvin scale does not use the word "degree".
Lmao
Always quality content my friend. Keep up the hard work!
Much appreciated Travis, if you think others would like it, we'd love a share!
@@TwoBitDaVinci definitely will, I live close to up in Temecula area. Appreciate all the great information you send out. I have Tesla and solar. Good stuff
Only if Elon Musk van live for 200 years longer we'd have a couple of colonies by then or sooner. And Space Stations that are in our solar system then a dozen or 3 dozen of them out of our solar system.
Ikr!
@@robertlee8805 they can’t send starships out of our systems we would need better tech like maybe anti gravity machine and a propeller in the front as a small source for some electric ⚡️ engines when it is still getting into/out of orbits on the second stage.
Wow that was one of the best made TH-cam videos I have ever watched. Very informative, easy to watch and understand, if it was 30 minutes longer I don't think I would have even noticed. Well done, looking forward to exploring your channel.
Had to pause 6 mins in....love his story telling method and graphics. Just so polished, technical but accessible and just plain relaxed. Proves a clear mastery of the content. As an expert in a different field, much respect to you; watching another expert ply his craft. Thank you 👍🏽
Using the gravitational equation, even at where the ISI is, you only lose about 12% of gravity. You go up to get out of the atmosphere, you go sideways, very fast, to get into orbit.
Yes absolutely
Than why are iss ppl always flying in almost zero gravity??
@@anilish5005 I know this is a super late reply but if you’re still wondering, imagine you’re falling off a building, when you’re falling, you don’t “feel” gravity, you are going down yes, but all your internal organs are falling at the same rate as the rest of your body, so you don’t notice it, because normally, your organs hang down because gravity is pulling on them, while you stand up, while if you’re falling, your body and insides are stationary relative to each other and therefore you experience “weightlessness”, the ISS is, technically “falling” towards the earth, but due to lack of atmospheric drag and the ridiculously high speed it is traveling at, it goes around it, always falling downward but the curvature of the earth prevents it from hitting the planet, TLDR; falling objects don’t really experience gravity.
The main thing that the superheavy has to get starship through is the atmosphere, not the higher gravity. Once a starship is hurtling sideways in orbit, there is no atmosphere pushing against it.
Yes, you are completely right. Even 200km up, gravity has only dropped by 6%. He shows the equations, but then never plugs in the numbers to see that his argument doesn't hold.
3:49- that was a pretty good bit
I've watched LOT'S of videos about SpaceX and the Starship. This is by far the most accessible and well articulated yet. Good stuff, well done!
7:45 "The fairings of the Falcon 9 are not reusable" - ah, ok it's a April 1st video
They gave up on recovery I believe
@@cee8029 I thought they were gonna switch to recovering them from the water
@@cee8029 They only gave up trying to catch the fairing by nets using two ships Ms. Tree & Ms. Chief.
They give up on all their projects. Because its hype. Even the Falcon, was supposed to be 3 stages that land under power. That promise, is why we have privatized space now. The Truth is, we parachute the capsule, burn up the 2nd stage, and the 3rd stage has to fly 10 times to _Start_ paying for itself.
They gave up on Heavy (how many people do you guys give shit, about how awesome Falcon Heavy was _going_ to be)
Hyperloop, the fastest train ever from NY to LA.. is now a few Teslas, being driven in tunnels underneath the Vegas Civic Center.
40,000 starlinks with 2-4 year life span at 200miles up.. is *a rocket launch every 2 days.. For Eternity*
Starship is fantasy. If you really want to see humans back in space, you guys better start thinking critically.
@@bartacomuskidd775 They do recover the fairing... Just saw it at port Canevaral couple hours ago. Projects evolve, maybe in the future we will see a stage 2 recovery. Or they just gonna use Starship for everything(my opinion) maybe they make a smaller version of starship. Since they plan to make it almost 100% re-usable
Very well laid out. Very clear with a lot of complex information made understandable for knuckleheads like me.
One of the best documentations about the Spaceship I have ever seen! BRGD
thank you Martin! curious what does BRGD stand for?
@@TwoBitDaVinci best regards for you 😊
never stumbled over one of your videos before despite watching similiar topic videos for a while.. didn't even take 5mins for me to sub, this is good stuff!
Super images and explanations...Everyday Astronaut; thank you, too.
Thinking big picture is uplifting. Quite the adventure once we start doing.
Better use of our resources, better understanding, better life.
2:03 The next tallest thing would be in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
Really! Interesting my wife will get a kick out of that. Thanks for sharing!
Just dreams for me.
I am far past my prime.
Enjoyed much. Thank you Ricky!!
You just earned yourself a brand new subscriber :)
Great video about Starship. Thanks to lots of info, I appreciate it. Though I didn't know about the variations of the craft: when you said Deep Space - are you talking about missions outside the solar system or would that be the one going from Earth to Mars (even tho all the ainmations alwasy show the standard version)?
Wow Brother!
IMPRESSIVE graphics & comparisons... on the Basketball court, Mars station, ...
Some how in spite of finishing lunch... I'm hungry for Astronaut ice cream.
haha me too!
Would be good if you looked into the "100" people to Mars, over 3 months, and all their supplies for the base, return and time to spemd on Mars.
_"Would be good if you looked into the "100" people to Mars, over 3 months, and all their supplies for the base, return and time to spemd on Mars."_ Why? That's a empty assertion, because that is not and was never the plan!
100 hundred passengers per trip is the aspirational goal for the (distant) future when there is already a city on Mars.
The first few trips will see much fewer Astronauts or settlers per Starship.
@@3gunslingers - Well, even when (not if, it will be done at some stage) there is a city on Mars, will all the associated facilities for life support there, you will not get 100 people into Starship for a 3 month trip. There is a good NASA paper on space required per person, per time.
@@antonyborlase3965
This paper is for hard working astronauts, not passengers.
Even tho passengers need their volume, too, the requirements are quite different.
Yes, 100 people on board will be crammed, but it's not this will be a joy cruise anyway.
But the 100 passengers were an aspirational goal anyway by Musk. Maybe we will only see 85 maximum before the 12 or 18 meter Starship variant comes online.
*@**4:56**, you said Super Heavy would be "totally empty". I don't think Super Heavy would be "totally empty" because it will reenter Earths atmosphere and land itself autonomously*
Wow what a great video, I learned a lot about starship that I didn't know yet. Keep them coming great stuff.
Multiple layers of cost reduction per flight very cool. Nice production on the video to btw.
Not sure if it’s you Katie or Dusty but thanks! Really worked hard on this one
My new favourite space channel by someone who really knows what they're saying. 😃
P.S Oh, and so much more! Way cool.
Thank you you just made my day :)
@@TwoBitDaVinci Ricky. Can you do some videos on building up on these planets and space stations?
You produced a terrific video with amazing content and editing.
First time visitor to your channel and I'm very impressed. A large quantity of quality Information brought forth in an easy to digest and fun presentation. Without any of the hubris exhibited by some of the other space content creators. Particularly, a certain "angry" creator that, with only the very limited information available to the general public, and none of the vast knowledge and data available to the engineers at SpaceX, will in hindsight continually question that company's development processes, launch cadence, and safety protocols. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you for your kind words!
Just found you. Glad I did. Great contribution here. Thank you
Lovely graphics, great content and music is extra ordinary
Glad you like it!
Great Video! I am very excited about the advancements we seem to be making in terms of space flight! I feel like a kid again and we are literally in the future I read about in my old OMNI magazines!'
I totally agree!
Starship second stage will have 6 engines but 3 will be sea level optimised for flight up and 3 vacuum optimised for propulsion in vacuum
I didn't know that, they would be different.
With Starship's capacity for up to 100 passengers, I want to make so many Among Us memes RN.
What mikealba said !!!
Only, in addition:
Seems like the first 500 meters could be accomplished with a hydraulic lifter, like the 1960s water Toy called Water Wiggle. It would save fuel and make for a safer, quieter, launch.
Ricky,
All fun aside, that was a brilliant presentation piece of work on a multifaceted very technical subject. Even with bits of humor!
I love all things space and space travel. The thing about space travel is that it takes us away from routine life and struggles and allows us to dream Positively about a bright and positive future! Maybe that's part of why I started watching re-runs of Star Trek the Next Generation. I also love it because it does encourage us to challenge conventional thinking as both Aristotle & Elon First Principles encourage because you must... if you dream of space travel! :-)
Extraordinarily well done my friend!
Eric 100% agree my friend, there's nothing that compares to the awe of space. I rewatch shows like star-trek too... I think the modern space era will inspire a huge new generation of young physicists, engineers and astronauts!
@@TwoBitDaVinci Indeed it is and frankly... I believe much is owed to Elon for invigorating science & technology in the public way for a better future. It would be so cool to be an young engineer at SpaceX today! Working for a truely great leader is rare! I was blessed yrs ago to be hired by a former NASA Dir. of Apollo Reliability, Quality & Safety after the Navy stole him to come and be a change agent to drive Reliability into our defenses at ASN(RD&A). Haha, now I consult for his son, both brilliant engineers as bosses!
These are very exciting days, but even more exciting today! 😀
Mind-blowing illustrations, thank you so much!
Glad you like them! We just got our hands on a second RTX 3090 to help increase our render speeds!
Elon wants to make a future starship with a 18 meter diameter just remember that 😳.
would probably absolutely destroy any launch pad it launches from
@@Live4PLAY3 That's why you engineer a launch pad to handle said event.
@@osian4182 will be one hell of an engineering problem to tackle. I mean, from what I read an 18 meter wide starship will produce about the amount of energy that was released by the hiroshima bomb
Bigger is always cheaper per kg. Early planes were small compared to current.
@@Live4PLAY3 Tue, but this is what Elon is know for. "Electric car aren't viable"? Get your tesla. "You can't reuse rocket"? I guess, I have my falcon 9 now. He is doing it with crew mission to Mars. So if he say he wants a 18m diameter rocket, I'm positive he will eventually
Nice upload and explanation about "Starship". Now I understand why it is a big deal.
@4:50 The booster does not fully deplete - it will retain sufficient fuel/oxy to slow down and 'be caught'/land. This is a MAJOR difference between SpaceX vs. other current launch systems. You correctly discuss return later though. ;)
excellent presentation of a very exciting topic!
You:Why is Starship so big
Me:To take 100 people to Mars and to the moon and to carry heavy things to Mars and to the moon and to have enough fuel to travel to Mars and the moon.And That's why he is so big.
Haha so funny
And what about your mom? Why is she so big?
Funny
Isn't it a she?
Zzz don't give up your day job gamer
What a lot of people do not realise about interplanetary travel is, it takes a lot of energy/fuel to accelerate out of earth, then it takes the same amount to slow down at destination. Yes you can use friction to help but it still requires retro rockets to slow to an acceptable speed.
Sir...this is a well done video with outstanding commentary!
The superheated booster is not going to run until its fuel has run dry, it will shut off and preform a boostback to the launch tower, do a hoverslam or suicide burn, and catch itself in the Launch tower.
I am so proud to be alive during this time period
It is just unfortunate that we probably won't be alive when the really cool stuff happens.
@@shaun6828 really cool stuff happens on 2030 and 2050
@@seeker8672 I think a big chunk of what happens and when will be determined by what we do with general purpose AI. Hard to say what will happen when beings vastly smarter than humans start influencing our development.
@@shaun6828 probably/hopefully positive influence
Thank you for taking the time to make and post this AWESOME Video.....
Amazing video! Honestly I have not seen your channel before but this is one of the best videos I have seen covering this awesome topic. Really fun and informative watch!
Wow, thank you!
Why is Starship so Big? ----> It's built in Texas!
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I've loved this video, man! Really good work! I've seen the Everyday Astrounaut's video too. The amount of details are just insane! You're so awsome doing videos about the Starship! Keep going!
Thanks a ton Andre, we will do!!
Well done sir. You explain everything easy.
I appreciate that!
Correction: while SLS is pitched as a Space Shuttle replacement, in practise, Dragon and Starliner replace the common Space Shuttle function of ferrying crew and cargo between Earth and the international space station. SLS is really a Saturn V replacement, as Space Shuttle was stuck in low Earth orbit, while SLS is intended solely for lunar activity.
SLS is also intended to send probes on direct trajectories to the outer solar system and also to support crewed Mars missions eventually by launching nuclear thermal propulsion architecture.
@@alrightydave Thanks for the correction. It further supports my case that SLS is not a Space Shuttle replacement, as Shuttle was limited to low Earth orbit.
Yep. Using SLS to go to the space station is ridiculously expensive since it almost costs 2 Billion dollars to do so and SpaceX and Boeing might be able to do that for astronomically lesser cost
@@manashejmadi SLS would never take Orion to the space station not just because of cost but because it’s a deep space launch vehicle. The core stage literally drops off the ICPS and EUS into orbit as payloads. You’d just be unnecessarily ditching the fully fueled ICPS/EUS. Ares 1 was the proposed launch vehicle to take Orion to the ISS, although today Falcon Heavy/Vulcan could do this job far cheaper than Ares 1.
Also, SLS launch costs will drop dramatically once the Artemis program gets underway. For Artemis 1 the launch cost will be in the billions but further down the Artemis program, we’ll eventually see prices drop to about $870M.
Starship is big because it's not small
We'll finally have crewed space exploration missions.
Following some names of SpaceX, like "Of course I still love you", and "Just read the instructions.", we suggest call the super heavy: "Get the hell out of here."
4:45 when you get bored in Gmod sandbox and decide to put an ungodly amount of thrusters on a bomb
When standing upon it's launch pad, it is the tallest thing around, yet it is a lot shorter than it's take off tower that's right beside it.
that is actually the real challenge
I have loved anything to do with space since I witnessed the first man on the moon when I was at the tender age of 8. Then I found myself at Cape Canaveral on May 2nd,1982 and I got to watch the Space Shuttle "Colombia" blast off on her way to build the ISS station. We had special Photographers passes so we were as close as one can be. I was standing in 3' of water near the launch pad and I will never forget the feeling of those engines trembling every inch of my body, the power of the engines was mesmerizing. I also got Boarding passes on the "Perseverance" Rover for my entire family and now our names along with over 80 million ppl are engraved into a plaque on the Rover! And for fun I now fly drones so "Space" has been a part of my my entire life!
I suspect that one of the design reasons for going so big is the choice of stainless steel, since the volume grows faster than the skin and there is probably a sweet spot where the fuel load makes sense of the cargo volume and the skin weight as a percentage of the fuel load becomes reasonable. If you made the diameter large enough, it would float in the atmosphere from solar gain alone, at least during daylight. Buckminster Fuller suggested that a steel and glass sphere a mile in diameter could float like a fishing float.
Excellent episode.
Very lovely presentation and now LET'S DO IT!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!
What a time to be alive. Also so thankful to be able to take part of brilliant content like this, thank you.
This is a really good video.
I'd love to see a rocket the size of the empire state building flying through the air
id like to see us make a replica of a Star Destroyer . And use it for Space X lol
Just found your channel , great video ,new sub ! Cheers !!!
Awesome glad to hear it!
Blue Origin's New Shepard : "Compensating for something?" :-D
I get the same question in the bedroom lads, jk ,I wish 😂😂
haha
15:56 people were surprised recently (4-21-21 current date) when a falcon booster crashed. that is how fast people went from being amazed that a main launch booster was landing to expecting every booster to land. it is apollo in hyperspeed, hardly anyone was watching the last couple launches to the moon, because they didn't expect any surprises.
Very well done. First break down I’ve seen of Starship with this much information and being entertaining. Thank you.
Great content, scripting, editing, and delivery Ricky!
Mighty kind of you Joel and greatly appreciated!
SpaceX board of directors: How big do you want this thing?
Elon Musk: Yes.
😂
Elon Musk is the single most important person to ever grace humanity. Thank you for everything have you do help all of humanity!
Short answer: It's got to fit an entire god damn colony in it
been following the project and your video is one of the best intro. Thanks
I’m a Starship fan but skeptical of minimal refurbishment before relaunch. We got that same promise with the shuttle and I think it will be Spacex most daunting barrier.
I am 70 years old in a couple of weeks. I was a child when Sputnik 1 shocked the world and inspired me. Soon after came Yuri Gagarin with his huge grin on his face and my world changed.
I saw Sky Lab orbit the earth and Apollo striving for the moon. I watched as Russian and American stretched out to shake hands on space, men drice vehicles on the moon and the International Space Station was constructed. But always I looked to Mars.
I doubt that I will live to see the first human to leave his or her footprint upon the Red Planet. But my hopes, dreams and fears will be with you whoever you are.
Excellent explanation and script. Please correct the audio equipment it distorts your voice and creates a cloud of fuzzy as if your voice dissolves from the speaker to the human ear.
By the way you do have an excellent diction and speed of speaking
More people with cosmic perspective, less people with collective identity illness, and we will be ok. Great channel!
Sea dragon could have been mentioned in the size comparison
“Oh my, Elon! Your Starship is plunging into my atmosphere too fast! You need to slow down!” -Mars, probably
Imagine if it says "harder daddy"
now I regret every second of my life (jk)
4:57 The booster's propellants are not exhausted at MECO. Some is kept to perform the back at the pad burn, right after MECO, then the re-entry burn, to slow it down before reaching the denser parts of the atmosphere, then finally the landing burn. It's not dead waste. Looks like you're talking about some conventional rocket, with an expandable first stage. The Starship system is intended to be fully reusable, including the booster.
After seperation from superheavy, stardship will ignite 3 vaccum engines, the other 3 are sea level raptors for landing/launch again on/from planets. Un less it is a luna starship which at least initially will not return.
@9:28 heat on reentry is not caused by friction with the atmosphere. Heat is caused because the molecules in the atmosphere can only move around 350 mph and the rocket coming in is going around 20,000 mph. The gas molecules in front of the spaceship get compressed and anytime gases are compressed they give off heat.
Well done! He is advancing the technology many times faster than anyone before. Talk about a money pit! Pretty sure Falcon 9 is a money maker, but it was a risky venture to start.
Boy do i love the TH-cam recommended sometime. Great vid
You know, I would normally just poke fun at the name of your Channel but you have some really good content and even the look on your face as you read your script is calming which is a big plus to most people nowadays that have their ass cheeks clenched 24/7. LOL I'm definitely going to subscribe to your Channel because I'm curious to see what the evolution of this channel is going to be like. The sky is the limit man and you have every bit of ability to turn out content just like Tim Dodd and the like.
Very well made video. A lot of good pointers. For one I liked the early section on spacecraft comparision.
Hey so I don’t know much about this kinda stuff but are they going to try to make artificial gravity on the ship to Mars?
Troubled a bit by the discontinued use of Hydrogen as fuel. Although it is harder to store, and has less energy when oxidized, is it not better for the atmosphere by being less polluting?