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Elon Musk: The Techno Shaman

Decoding the Gurus

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The Falcon Nine Orbital Rocket Is a Critical Breakthrough

The holy grail needed to make life multi-planetary is a fully and rapidly reusable rocket orbital rocket, says Musk. He claims that with Starship we're going for 100 reasonable launch costs. "It's able to say how profound a change this will be," he adds.

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it's dropped a fair bit hundred and twenty five dollars anyway even at the time that was a pretty a pretty high price and the stock price jumped based on that because usually you don't say that kind of thing unless it's it's absolutely real and you can't say that kind of thing because it's manipulation so he got into a bit of trouble for that but i guess the issue is is that there's not just it's not just optimism there's an awful lot of claims which are demonstrably untrue and
Speaker 3
self-serving so
Speaker 2
another example of this kind of language with tiny specific technologies is when he's talking about the falcon nine rocket and and again you can see like his kind of cosmic view in this the thing that is
Speaker 4
like the the holy grail like the critical breakthrough needed to make life multi-planetary and for humanity to be a space-bearing civilization is a fully and rapidly reusable rocket orbital rocket and so we've we've gone most of the way there with falcon nine you may have seen the rocket used to come back and land and we also recover the nose cone or firing but we do not recover the upper stage so so we've gone to the point where we're about you know 70 to 80 percent reusable with with falcon nine with Starship we're going for 100 reasonable i cannot it's able to say how profound a change this will be but a fully and rapidly reusable orbital rocket has the potential to drop the cost of access to space by a factor of a
Speaker 9
thousand a factor of a
Speaker 4
thousand
Speaker 1
that's a big factor 1,000 it is
Speaker 2
it

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