so recently Elin was at the 20/20 satellite keynote in Washington DC and he talked about
some really cool things which we're going to be discussing in this video so I'm gonna go out of
the norm and talk about space because usually all my videos are about cars and electric cars
and whatnot but this video I'm gonna make about space SpaceX and Starling all but Elon is actually
planning on doing and let's get right into the video and there are some really cool things to
talk about three two one roll the intro the 2020 satellite kina just happened a couple days back
and obviously there is so much stuff that he even actually talked about and honestly I will not be
able to cover all of it in this video because any time I'm not gonna just expand on everything be
you could just watch the conference yourself it's absolutely great hearing the guys talk and hearing
how a good advance of society to eventually reach Mars while we're on the topic of Mars Elon has
actually said in that conference that if we want to go to Mars we greatly have to speed up the rate
of innovation to reach Mars before he does because at the rate they're going out right now this is a
gallant words by the way just saying it took them 18 years just to put people into orbit and to put
people on Mars is exponentially harder so they really have to improve the rate of innovation
just to reach that milestone SpaceX is doing some great things today by actually designing rockets
to go to Mars the purpose of those Rockets are to go to Mars and Elon has this great way of thinking
he thinks if we want to get to Mars we have to go on the first principles so Ilan talked about
that the Falcon 9 the Falcon 9 rocket actually has a composite a metal composite covering its
body it's actually carbon fiber composite the problem with that is they can't really
sustain high temperature so when you're coming for re-entry because you have really hot temperature
because of air friction and what not really fast really high speeds what you want is a composition
to actually hold before that composition to hold you actually have to add a big heat shield that's
what they have in most other rockets whereas with starship they're going with the basic materials
with is steel and steel is really cheap steel is actually really cheap I think he said the steel
that they use is about $100 per kilogram which if you actually think about it is really cheap
considering that's the same steel that is used in the cyber truck and if you've seen the cyber
truck demos you know that steel is strong as hell and you need that strength if you're going all the
way up into orbit and coming back down to life especially when you're interacting at supersonic
speeds with the air you're gonna really heat up the body of the aircraft or not the aircraft the
spacecraft so there are few advantages of using steel number one steel as Elon described it is
very happy at really high temperature cryogenic temperatures which means steel can basically set
at 500 degrees Celsius no problem at all whereas the carbon-fiber composite in Falcon 9 is sort of
sacrificed at even just 200 degrees Celsius and there's another big advantage to using
steel obviously you keep cost down but Elon has this way of thinking to go to first principles
so the design was gonna take so much longer if they continued to use composit materials
and if they kept on these incompetent materials you would have had to have engineers and a team
event engineers actually to just work on solving that problem whereas the problem children exist in
the first place now a sign of a good design is removing a problem that shouldn't exist you'll
actually said that the worst thing an engineer can do is optimizing a problem that shouldn't
actually exist because you're spending way too much time optimizing that problem which actually
shouldn't even be there in the first place and not spending enough time on the actual problem
of building rocket getting into space and whatnot starship needs to have a few characteristics one
of them being it has to be refueled in orbit and the base advantage of that is when you have such
a big body that you're carrying up to space with a lot of mass you're gonna expel so much fuel just
escaping earth there's a gravity and once you get to orbit you're basically in freefall right
we're an elliptical orbit doesn't really matter so what you can do watch another rocket refill
the starship so it's back in 100 percent fuel lambda refueling rocket and then the starship
can actually started engines and escape the orbit of Earth and head straight to Mars which means
you can leave Earth's orbit with a full tank of fuel and you don't have to design a rocket
that's exponentially bigger just so that you can have enough fuel to go to Mars because you have
to remember this you need exponentially more fuel just to push the fuel that already exists
into orbit so that that field can be used later on that's why rocket times is really hard but
you want then designing a rocket especially an expendable rocket so the one that only has just
one life you know you shoot it up and then comes back down and just that's it you're done with the
rocket forever those are pretty easy then you can basically read books on it and design one
yourself and you pretty much got one the hard part is building and then an even harder part
in order of many magnitudes like two or three magnitudes harder is designing the production
line of that rocket which they are trying to do in Boca Chica with the starship they're trying
to design the production line and as we've seen with model 3 production lines are really really
tough now yuan is really big about talking and actually being truthful to other people saying
oh yeah production lines are this oh there's this hard it's not hard this is where we're having the
problem with and we need smarter people to work on it and it's a good thing that he's actually
being more and more honest with everyone talking about all the stuff that is going wrong because
based on that we can get the smart people working on those problems right away and not focusing on
other solutions that other companies might have that shouldn't even exist in the first place so
now that we talked about starship let's talk about star link star link is gonna be big and
I want to spend a little bit of time talking about starting the reason why star link is gonna be big
is because you will have internet access pretty much anywhere on the globe look truly anywhere
on the globe and they're launching so many more satellites actually I can even pull up so I have
this app on my phone and what it does it's called night sky it's free obviously there's
a paid version I just went for the free version and what you can do is actually move around and
actually sees darling satellites so now I'm actually recording the screen and you can see
those Starling satellites right there in that row and then you see another row right over here right
there and you can see even more satellites if you just look over there do you see those right there
exactly so there are plenty of satellites all these satellites that you see the small ones right
here like this that they're all startling look at that look at that they're also Starling this one's
a telescope bubbles Hubble telescope Hubble Space Telescope all these are satellites right over here
these lines that are going about so Allah already has so many satellites in orbit and basically he
wanted to make the satellite the usability of a satellite really really simple so all you need
is this as he described a pizza sized box on a stick which all you would need to do it'll have
two instructions and he said you could do them in either order which will be to plug in and point at
the sky so you can either plug it in first and point out the sky or point of the sky and plug
it in for obvious reasons the star link should be really really useful especially to policy
speaking at I don't even think I connected do a good job explaining how useful it will be we just
got awake because some things like the GPS came to be after the satellites the GPS satellites used by
the military were out and operational and that was a big achievement how many people use GPS today
like you want to search up something you have navigation you have Google Maps any sort of thing
you use GPS pretty much for most people every day for a lot of things and it's so useful today that
we basically can't live without it if you take them all the GPS satellites you'll be like Oh what
now yes you could probably cell towers but that's not just as good and it's not literally a Global
Positioning System GPS so StarLink will have the same sort of effect you won't even imagine what's
possible with Siddharth with Starling until maybe a decade after it's fully operational and everyone
is trying to get something done or trying to get some innovation happening in that field
another thing Ilana actually talked about was that Starling is not really gonna split up with SpaceX
the reason he said that was because every other constellation company that has been out there
has gone bankrupt literally every single one you did talk about Orion but he's like it's not really
the same sort of thing so what his plans are is to actually make StarLink a viable solution and
for it to not go back if he splits it there's a really high chance that it can go bankrupt cuz
right now SpaceX is a private company if he splits it and then people have been talking about all
StarLink I peeled this is gonna happen with not AB Elon actually said that he's not even thinking
about doing that I don't know where people got that from maybe insider info that someone just
said and maybe they're thought about it for like I don't know not even a meeting it's probably just
like do you think strongly I need to think about that and then two seconds later you probably said
no but person said we're thinking about it and I don't know how I got in the news honestly but
that is not gonna happen so no StarLink IPO sorry to break your bubble but you know what just get
on the Tesla stock it's dirt cheap right now I have no clue how much it is right now it's like
five hundred something right now it's at 5:58 at the time of this recording that's dirt cheap you
can get on that and you know we've seen the Tesla stock go up to nine hundred something dollar so
that's a 40% increase on your stock just maybe in a few months so if you really want to earn money
with the IPO and get all that I think it tells the stock even today is a really good buy so
maybe StarLink you shouldn't really worry about anyways because it's a plan for Elon Musk is to
actually get it operational and actually start earning money so that you can fund his project
to go to Mars Star Lake will be his money maker his primary money maker for SpaceX based on Elon
and the way he runs his company he basically puts all the revenue into R&D which is actually what
every startup should be doing SpaceX has been in the business for what 18 years honestly what
they're trying to do I would still consider them a start-up because they have not either reached that
goal yet or they're not even close to reaching that goal yet and no we're probably not gonna see
any sort of starship flights to Mars in two years which Elon actually said in 2022 2024 I doubt it
even though SpaceX is not really a start-up necessarily but they want to grow they need
R&D to actually grow that is what they're gonna do they have to get some income somehow and I
don't think NASA is gonna be the primary customer and obviously SpaceX one so the customers and so
this is actually one way where Ellen can actually further his plans to reach Mars within this decade
and you know like he said he has to improve the rate of innovation and that's not gonna happen
if you don't have any sort of capital so you can actually do rnd to further your innovation the
space industry really needed innovation in 69 when they launched Apollo 11 to go to the moon people
were thinking Oh we'd have a moon base in 15 years or something like that we'd be at Mars before the
year 2000 if you would have told them by 2020 that we don't even have a moon base you know
how much they would crush their dreams yes it's a whole nother topic for a whole nother video but I
just want to say that the reason we actually went to the moon was because us was at war it was not
because all we want to explore you know new places it was because we were at war we had to not leave
but like the Americans had to beat the Russians to get to space and then to actually reach the
moon and so they did and they have a flag up there and that was the primary motive how many flights
actually happened to the moon wall not many after I don't even think any even happened after 75 1975
so that just shows that America has been really lagging behind after those times I just want to
say one more thing this is related to cars so do you realize how good their cars actually looked
back in the 60s and 70s we were at sure we're at war it wasn't like a war battle war like sort of
thing it was a race to see who can reach space in the moon first and you can consider that sort of
like a war and Kennedy was a big part of it he was like the whew he was he wanted to actually
get there before the Russians and whatnot that time period was actually really good for American
innovation it was basically the big baby boomer time honestly it was just overall for everything
in America was just booming is this booming time and we have to basically repeat that which means
we need more innovation in this field which means we need more smart people to work on these sort
of problems not only smart people we need more companies to start up to actually provide access
to space and what that will do is create a bigger economy because with the internet we have lower
cost to start a business you don't have to buy something you could just start one online for
less than 100 bucks even less than that probably and there you go you can pretty much scale that
business up to over a million dollars of revenue a year and the space is gonna be the same thing
getting the cost down low many more entrepreneurs are going start businesses about space maybe even
mining asteroids and comets that come our way and at that point we will be a type one civilization
because we are using the resources not only on our planet but on other planets just for our
innovation and advance and so that we can travel to other places all right thank you for watching
this video I know this was a long one I hope you enjoyed it I don't know if you want to see more
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talk more about them because I know this channel is about electric cars and cars in general but I
kind of feel like this is sort of an important topic that not many people know about that is
so important for the future of our civilization nonetheless if you don't want to see more than
I'll just not make them on this channel whatever I don't know I don't mind okay I have another
channel to do all that stuff linked down below anyway so thank you for watching hope you enjoyed
this one and I'll see you tomorrow hopefully if I don't miss a video again yes whatever bye peace