Elon Musk explains how Starship works | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

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Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Boring Company.

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[cxoolio]

I love the way Elon says this “This won’t work the first time” while laughing. The acceptance of failure as part of the process of doing anything is the key to success when paired with perseverance

[hunternewberry]

"Prototypes are easy, production is hard" better be on Elon's tombstone.

[benxevans]

"Success is in the set of all possible outcomes" I could feel Elons pain of knowing all the other possible outcomes.

[shakespearsplat]

Me: has no idea what Elon is talking about
Also me: nodding enthusiastically in agreement with everything Elon says.

[ComanderMelon]

Elon always sounds like a student trying to give a presentation and they didn’t prepare for it

[cosmicninjaSN]

I went to Starbase, Texas 4 times in 2021. I'm leaving Plant City, Florida in 9 days for Starbase. It's amazing how close you can get to all the action!

[gregorysagegreene]

"The physics pencils out. Success is in the set of possible outcomes."
... wow, engrave that in Roman stone.
Guy issues some epic quotes.

[herbb]

A karate kid and dumb and dumber reference in the same clip??? Nice!!

[parcangelo]

7:48 "So you're saying there's a chance". The way Lex said it was exactly like Jim Carey on Dumb and Dumber

[klj]

great show congratulations on booking Elon

[adeebh.s]

Thanks, imma start making this in my garage now

[jacqi]

I love that you nabbed Elon again. Amazing.

[erikperik]

Wow! Great catch Lex. Now I want to see a Russian guest. You speaking Russian and we reading the subtitles. There must be 1.000.000 interesting Russian possible guests.

[deltauniformtangocharlieho]

Elon didn't get Lex's "Dumb and Dumber" reference: 7:49

[fahimrahman]

Could we like shoot up drones too catch the ship as it comes down, like small thrusters on drones that plug to the ship might be a little cheap could use it for every ship

[blengi]

Does anyone know to what degree something like a merlin or raptor engine's combustion aspects are manageable via AI/software control? Things like the milli second rate at which one can adjust inputs fuel and mix ratios, the ability to cool various things in a controlled manner, or disable this valve or that etc. Or is much of the engine just engineered to perform in some optimal fashion without much finessing at the %0.1 level by AI? Ultimately I'm just curious how much latitude the designs have and how robust they are to variation in non nominal scenarios. For example, could they make raptors/rockets with modest random variations in the chamber, turbo pumps, injector palte at the %5 level and be confident that the sensors and AI alone can determine a reasonable working profile to accommodate the variation? Or is there just not that much leeway in the engineering or computer's ability to adjust things by design or hard physical limitations?

[adnanleo]

The whole purpose of neurolink seems to be to fast track human brain evolution and processing power to come up with an idea of a new propulsion technology which we would have discovered over centuries, in a relatively smaller time instead.

[GobRogan]

Lex always coming through.
But Wow as always, listening to Elon talk. I can’t imagine what it was like to listen to Tesla and Einstein or DaVinci etc.. in person.

We have Elon, right now. With us. We are living with one of the writers of human history.

Enjoy it people :)

[Micloren]

Curious if electromagnets could be used to recapture a rocket. I mean… if you can use it to levitate trains why not have a magnetic net to capture rockets? Maybe there’s an energy cost function that’s prohibitive.

[missinglink]

god, this guys really know how things works!!! my lead speaks like him and they can explain things up to the smallest details.