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#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Bureaucracy of Rocket Launches and Testing Sonic Booms on Seals
This chapter explores the bureaucracy of rocket launches in Vandenberg, California and an absurd situation where they tested the impact of sonic booms on seal procreation by kidnapping a seal and playing sonic boom sounds to it. Despite the tests, the seal population has actually increased, rendering rocket booms inconsequential.
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