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OK, so SpaceX, right?

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They just did something unbelievable

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with this Starship launch.

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Yeah, incredible.

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Flight five.

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I mean, they launched it.

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It went up.

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And then they caught the super heavy booster

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when it came back down from space.

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Really a landmark moment for reusable rockets.

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It's like catching what?

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A skyscraper midair after it's been to space?

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Wild.

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And then on top of that, the second stage,

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that's the part that keeps going, right?

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Right, after the booster separates.

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Landed perfectly in the Indian Ocean.

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Like a dive.

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So we've got this article someone sent in.

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The dawn of rapidly reusable rockets.

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Figured we got a deep dive into this, because this launch

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changes things big time.

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Well, for sure.

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We've been stuck for so long on these rockets.

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One use, gone.

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Creates so much junk up there.

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And the cost, forget it.

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This catch, SpaceX pulled off.

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This is a whole new ball game.

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It's the difference between renting a horse-drawn carriage

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once and then having your own car, right?

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You can use it again and again.

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But before we get too far, for people

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who aren't rocket scientists, break it down.

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What are these rapidly reusable rockets, really?

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Different from the old stuff, how?

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OK, picture this.

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Airplanes, except you can only fly them once.

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Cross-country trip.

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New plane every time.

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That's basically how space travel's been.

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Now, these rapidly reusable rockets,

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they're built to launch, come back down

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to Earth on their own, and with a tune up,

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they're ready to go again.

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So Starship Flight 5, it goes up.

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Booster comes back down, gets snagged.

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Meanwhile, the second stage, the top part,

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that's off on its mission, right?

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Yeah.

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What's the secret sauce behind catching that booster, though?

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Accuracy.

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That's the name of the game.

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Dead on accuracy.

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SpaceX, they use these grid fins, tons of thruster power,

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and computers on board.

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It's like guiding it with a joystick, almost.

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Back to the launch tower, perfect landing.

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And you're talking about something massive,

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like landing a whole building on a platform barely bigger

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than it is.

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OK, so threading a needle, except the needle's

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the size of, I don't know, a whole city block.

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And the threads, this giant rocket engine

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hurtling down at thousands of miles an hour.

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My brain hurts just thinking about it.

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But in all seriousness, what does this actually

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mean for space going forward?

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The article we've got here says there's some major ripple

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effects from this.

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The big one, right off the bat.

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Space just got cheaper.

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Reusable rockets, it's like splitting the bill over

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and over.

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You build it once, fly it multiple times,

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cost per launch goes way, way down.

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So instead of a one-time extravaganza,

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it's more like, I don't know, a really, really pricey plane

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ticket, eventually, maybe.

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You got it.

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And when that happens, then things

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OK, cheaper space travel.

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That's got to be good, right?

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But how?

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What changes when we can just reuse rockets all the time?

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Think about it this way.

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Satellites.

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Launching them, it's a fortune right now.

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So expensive.

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Right.

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Really limits who can even think about using space, right?

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But reusable rockets.

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Suddenly, you could be launching way more satellites, all kinds.

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The article even talks about global broadband.

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Imagine that.

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Everyone with good internet, sign me up.

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And not just that.

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Monitoring the Earth, all those satellites

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could track climate change.

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See, disaster's happening.

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The possibilities are huge.

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So faster internet, and we could keep a better eye on the planet.

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What's not to like?

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See, this is what gets people excited.

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Deep space.

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Missions to Mars, stuff we've only dreamed of.

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It all gets a lot more realistic with reusable rockets.

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Mars, Mars, Mars.

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Everyone's always talking about Mars.

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What's so special about it anyway?

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It's the most like Earth out of all the planets we know, right?

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There might be water ice there, and some scientists

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think it might even been livable once, long ago.

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Like aliens.

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Well, we don't know that.

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But exploring Mars, it could tell us so much how life starts,

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if there's life anywhere else.

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Huge questions.

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that's got to be crazy difficult, isn't it?

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Oh, absolutely, no doubt.

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The article talks about the challenge.

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The environment on Mars is brutal.

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The flights are so long.

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Can you imagine being stuck in a spaceship for that long?

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And don't even get me started on how

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to live there, growing food, air to breathe.

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It's a huge undertaking.

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Yeah, sounds kind of rough.

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It'd be incredibly hard, no question.

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But reusable rockets, at least transporting people

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and supplies, it's not so impossible anymore.

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It's a start, right?

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Yeah, OK, I see what you mean.

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So we've got Mars, and the article,

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The Dawn of Rapidly Reusable Rockets,

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it doesn't stop there.

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It also mentions some pretty big potential benefits from space,

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like beyond just going to another planet.

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Oh, yeah, like what?

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Asteroid mining.

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Apparently, asteroids have tons of valuable stuff, things

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we're running out of here on Earth.

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Oh, right, I've heard about this.

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So instead of digging deeper and deeper,

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we could just, I don't know, get it from space.

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Exactly, it's a whole new way of thinking about resources.

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Instead of draining the Earth, we could, I don't know,

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get what we need from space, be more sustainable.

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It's a huge change, going from stuck on Earth

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to using the whole solar system, you know, wild.

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Totally.

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And it's been a dream for a long time, right?

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Sci-Fi always has asteroid miners and stuff.

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it's like we're taking that first step.

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It could actually happen.

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It's like those old stories, you know,

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back when people first sailed across oceans,

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discovered new continents, they had no idea what they'd find.

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Except this time, it's space, and who knows what's out there.

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going to be challenges we can't even imagine yet.

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The article talks about ethical questions, too,

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really important stuff.

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But still, the possibilities, what we could learn,

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how it could change things for humanity, we can't ignore that.

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So we've talked about Mars, asteroid mining,

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even like the cost of space travel and all that.

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But it's easy to think, OK, cool, but what about me

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down here on Earth?

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Yeah, I get it.

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It's all very pie in the sky, right?

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Mars colonies digging up asteroids.

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It's not exactly everyday stuff.

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Like good for Elon Musk and all, but what's

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in it for the rest of us?

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Chuckles.

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Yeah, exactly.

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But here's the thing.

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This technology, it's not just about those big crazy ideas.

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It really could change our lives down here,

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even if we never even see a spaceship in person.

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OK, so how?

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Our article here, The Dawn of Rapidly Reusable Rockets,

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it mentions a few ways this tech could trickle down, so to speak.

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Yeah, well, remember how we talked about launch costs

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going down?

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That's huge E for satellites.

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I mean, imagine a world where launching a satellite is like,

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I don't know, sending a package in the mail.

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Super common.

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Wow, that would be something else.

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And think what that means.

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More satellites, all kinds of them.

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Suddenly, everyone could have high speed internet, even

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in the middle of nowhere.

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No more buffering.

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I'm in.

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But seriously, internet for everyone, that would be huge.

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For education, for health care, everything.

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Absolutely, and it's not just about staying connected.

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Imagine keeping an eye on the whole planet in real time.

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Satellites could track climate change,

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see disasters as they happen.

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We could get ahead of things.

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Man, we could use some of that getting ahead stuff,

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that's for sure.

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No doubt.

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And on top of all that, think about the jobs.

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Space is already a big industry, right?

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that's a lot of new jobs.

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Engineers, builders, scientists, you name it.

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It's like the internet boom, but for space.

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Exactly.

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It's that same kind of energy, that feeling

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of a whole new world opening up.

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Except this time, instead of connecting computers,

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we're connecting humanity to the cosmos.

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I like the sound of that.

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Well, we've covered a lot of ground today,

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from catching rockets to Mars bases, asteroid mines,

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even solving some of Earth's biggest problems.

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It's mind blowing stuff.

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And it all comes back to this one thing, reusable rockets.

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We really could be on the edge of something incredible,

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all thanks to some seriously smart people pushing

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the limits of what's possible.

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Absolutely.

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It makes you want to go outside, look up at the stars,

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and just dream big.

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So to everyone listening, we want to hear from you.

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What gets you excited about this new era of space travel?

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What questions keep you up at night?

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This is just the start of the conversation,

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and it's going to be an incredible ride.

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Keep asking those questions.

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Keep looking up, and we'll see you on the next Deep Dive.