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If you had internet or TV or even probably lived under a rock, you knew that SpaceX caught a rocket.

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So on October 13th, SpaceX made history when it was able to catch a Stage 1 booster known as

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Super Heavy from a 400 foot Starship launch, which is insane. This is a true engineering feat.

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Seeing the booster return to the launch site and then being like,

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catch by a metal arm. We can argue Elon Musk and like...

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Yeah, we're gonna talk about that in a sec.

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But that is truly impressive. And yes, if we are looking closer into the night sky one day,

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we might wake up and realize, wait a second, that's no moon and that's just before Elon Musk blows

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us all up. But it was truly amazing because this is like we are seeing kind of this advancement of

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space travel. I mean, we're seeing more advancement now than NASA has in like 30 years.

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Which is what's fresh. There are two things about this story that are frustrating to me.

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One, that it took this to get our bug for space travel back. And the thing is,

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I got excited when Richard Branson started Virgin Galactic and it's like, you're a billionaire,

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start a space program. Bezos has Blue Origin and Elon's got SpaceX. And to a degree, I'm like,

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this is great because yeah, I mean, these are, as you said, a true feat of engineering to catch

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that rocket. I saw the video like mid-flight and like, okay, we're good. You know, he'd landed

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lock rockets before. Somebody in the chat saying the engineers, we caught a rocket, Elon. And I

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helped. Okay, which for those of you who are not old is a reference to shaken bait commercial.

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Right. Look at the Frank Juergen and I helped. You know, the little four year old girl.

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Oh, God, which, which again, brings us kind of around to that topic of Elon, right? Is that

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between Tesla and SpaceX like five years ago, Elon was like revered by a lot of people because he

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was pushing forward in a lot of areas that people weren't pushing forward in, like really pushing

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into the electric car market, really trying to break the, the stranglehold that the dealerships

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had, you know, in the way that the dealership structure worked by direct selling and not

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having dealers, right? Yeah. Which I think is a good thing. And really making electric cars

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mainstream, SpaceX going, Hey, look, like we've got to invest money and time into this and I'm

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willing to do that. And I'm a big proponent for space travel. I think it's a good thing. I think

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from a resource standpoint, the asteroid belts are out there like there's so much

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in a resource limited planet that we live on being able to leave to go get shit

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for resources is a good thing. It's so that I will I'm going to interject real quick. So that

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is a good thing. I do I do agree with you, but I have read studies where that could be super

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dangerous because you could mine an asteroid. And if it has, for instance, if it's rich in

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diamonds or whatever, they could crash the world market. Like, I don't know if our like

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markets ready for us to mine asteroids. But other than that, super cool. Let's go. Let's do it.

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And then Elon lost his mind. He didn't lose his mind. Okay. Oh, I'm going to interject again. He

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did not lose his mind. You have to give him credit when credit is due. He designed the world's ugliest

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truck and the most useless truck. So he hasn't lost his mind. He's still there.

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And I and and literally, I know people who are putting bumper stickers on their Tesla saying,

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I bought this before Elon went nuts. Right. People who are looking at these accomplishments

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to these great engineers and space action going, he's tainted the whole thing. Yeah, which I really

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think sucks. Like it sucks. Somebody in the chat said, Elon is dollar store Edison. Just as good

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as taking credit for other people's work with loyalism to contribute. They're not wrong. He's

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not an engineer. This is not his thing. Yeah. Again, it's frustrating because this should be

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this should be one of those news stories that we're like, yes, this is the greatest. And we're

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just like, but Elon. Yeah, fucking Elon. I think I think for me, the moment where I was like,

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what the fuck now to be clear for our audience, you come from an engineering background. Yes.

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Right. So you have a deep appreciation of the level of like brain sweat, like pure like brain

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sweat of how do we do this? And then not only like, how do we do this, but now we've got to make it

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into a practical thing. Yeah. Right. You have a deep appreciation for that. I I get chills

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every time I see SpaceX do like do something really amazing. Like it gives me physical chills.

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I because it's cool. It's so cool. Like, and I don't think you can really appreciate it until

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you spend like three weeks, like just trying to make like a very basic robot arm, like,

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not even pick up a block, but like move to the left, you know, you're like, and then like, when

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you finally get it, you're like, Oh my gosh, like, I, you know, I fixed it. It makes sense. Like,

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we're doing it. And then you move on to bigger things. So to see like us reusing rockets, to see

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them like landing on launch pads or being caught by like the launching side or whatever, like that

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is like really, truly amazing because the amount of engineering, like the amount of stuff that has

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to go right, or you have to plan ahead and kind of have all of these like very smart decisions,

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and you like your code and everything like, it's insane. Plus all the things that could go wrong.

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know. It is really, really cool. And that's where

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it's kind of sad because like I try, I try to like, I don't know, break apart like there's SpaceX

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creator and creation. It's the same thing you do with art, right? Yeah. Like people are like,

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Harry Potter, but JK Rowling, right? Like, it's the same thing. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, we have

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this thing that we like. Why do you have to be a shitty person? Yeah. And I think, I think the moment

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for me when I was like, what is going on with this guy? I think that was the, the, what was it? The

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cave? The kids stuck in the cave? Oh yeah. Yeah. We talked about this in the show yesterday. Yeah.

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That when he like got mad because he couldn't make his miniature submarine and save them and then

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he called like the people that actually went in there and risked their lives to save the children.

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When he called them all pedophiles, that's when I was like, and we're done with you. What, like,

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what is going on? Yeah. Oh no, for sure. I'm JK Rowling, a female Elon Musk, except not smart.

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Thank you, chat. We appreciate that. Let us know what you think. Again, it's an amazing

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feat of engineering. It's really, really cool what they did. Does Elon taint everything that,

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that SpaceX does? Let us know what you think down in the comments. You know, leave us some, leave

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us some information.