Elon's Interview / Tour Part 2!

Great job with the Elon videos! We got to see so many things that were a mystery until now!

I believe the longterm goal is to produce methane on-site with carbon-capture technology slurping CO2 out of the air. Some of that carbon will be ejected into the vacuum of space after combustion, so there might be less carbon in the atmosphere overall... maybe?

Thanks for that ROM breakdown Anto, those figures seem reasonable and break it down well enough.

But the amount is dwarfed by what has already started to be released from permafrosts right now ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions

This is a good point raised, Steven. Methane is worse as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. I think it would be acceptable if methane was burnt to CO2 before release, but that means more complexity.

Who would have thought Elon would do this - great job, Tim! I suppose the answer lies in he is running faster than anyone else, even if they could get their act together. I am also looking forward to your work on Russian rocket engines. Elon went around looking for what others have been doing. Reminds me of Steve Jobs when he created NeXT, just with rockets.

Total human emissions of methane per year is ~600 million tons. Let’s say starship + booster needs 2,000 tons of methane per flight * 500 flights a year = 1 million tons of methane needed per year, but almost all is burned. If 1% of that methane is unburned and emitted, that would be 10,000 tons yearly or 0.002% of total methane emitted per year worldwide.

It occurred to me during the discussion of ullage gas venting as a means for reorientation of the booster prior to boost back burn… this is gaseous methane we’re talking about releasing directly into the upper atmosphere, right? When we start talking about the hundreds of starship flights planned per year, does this have the potential to be a significant greenhouse gas source? I’m not sure about the volumes we’re talking about, but I wonder about the unintended consequences for a moment on the lifecycle assessment of large scale starship deployment. Thoughts?

Outstanding work Tim I was throughly engaged to the last second. Bring on part 3!!

He said on nasaspaceflight yesterday that editing the sound for these videos was a giant pain in the ass because of all the banging and beeping and had interference with the wireless mics and audio not syncing so had to go almost frame by frame adjusting the audio. Given all that it sounds great!! Hopefully 3rd video editing will be easier since by the launchpad.

When is part 3 dropping? I can't wait

Couldn't agree more

Woah!!!!!!!!!!!

Love that you did this and can't wait for follow up interviews!! Keep up the fantastic work

This is incredible. I love the ground level view of all the moving parts.

Teeter-totter

Was it just me or is the teter-tower explanation just incredibly easy to understand?

Great videos! Happy to support your efforts. Please keep the fabulous content coming. Those "awkward silences" when Mr. Musk is thinking about a response or his brain suddenly breaks into math calculations had to be hard. There were at lease two times when you asked a fairly direct question and got a lengthy silence back. You handled those very professionally. I think a lot of interviewers would have been thrown off by that. I for one, really enjoyed and appreciated seeing Mr. Musk in his "natural environment". You always hear about him being heavily involved in the engineering. To see him able to pull so much esoteric knowledge about the systems out of his brain with no delay really allows you to appreciate how intensely involved and knowledgeable he really is. I would like to see Mr Bezos try to answer some of these questions about his programs.

Another amazing session! Minor question: Around 50:00 the starship section behind Elon is half white. Is this just a plastic coating on the rings that they're peeling off, or is it adhesive for the tiles, or what? You didn't ask about it on the ground, but maybe it was obvious or something you already knew about. If you get an opportunity to do a second tour, it would be absolutely amazing if you could do more on-screen labelling of things you're just walking past, to the extent you can. Maybe Elon could task someone at SpaceX with helping with that, since they're obviously remarkably committed to getting information out via your channel. Great job.

Reed Bowman

Thanks for bringing up the escape system topic. They have the right goal to make it safe enough, as with commercial airliners where there’s no escape system for crew and passengers.

David Hemsath

https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/techdigest/pdf/APL-V03-N04/APL-03-04-Hill.pdf An old 1964 paper on high temperature alloys. Figure 1 and 4 summarize it. These guys were trying to solve the reusability problem then.

Thnx Tim! It is great to be your Patron . To listen to you getting info out of Elon and also picking his brain is a joy :-) Keep it up. But you both seems to need some more sleep....

Brell Persovin

Found on and ordered from Tesla.com

You are living the dream Tim! Thanks for sharing. But more importantly, where can I get Elon’s Cybertruck shirt??

Great interview! Can’t wait to see part three and four, and many more!

Thanks for doing and sharing this. It was so fascinating. As someone who suffers with back pain, it was hard to watch how much pain he was obviously feeling.

Bob and Michelle Murray

Amazing interview. I think it would be awesome to see a fourth video where you take us through the tents and in voice over explain what we are seeing. Elon says the factory is much more complex, but with my limited understanding, I fail to observe that and I would love to learn more. You probably also have different camera views from inside the tents (if you were allowed to use them). Thanks for everything you do!

Adam

Can't wait to hear more about Mechazilla

thank you TIm for showing us the real but tired Elon Musk

Marcel van Tuijl

I love seeing that outward indication of how his mind works, though. I wonder what caught his attention. His back pain? His dog? An engineering problem…I

Looks great!

So happy to get a sneak peek, Tim. Can’t wait for the finale!

Thank you so much! 😍

Thank you for early viewing of the video! I love how you are able to ask Elon questions, at a level that shows his depth of involvement, in the design of different systems. Answers from Elon ranging from, a very complicated in depth answer, too, though we would try it that way, hope it works, are so great.

Just finished part 2 and the access you have got is unreal thank you for being able to share this with the community

Honestly, Elon needs to bring Tim in on the design process I feel like you guys would work great together.

Also, just got play and already he’s quotable, “…and frankly if some fool wants to copy this design, go for it!” 🤣 They call me Some Fool…

Brilliant stuff Tim thank you for bringing us these great interviews and thanks to SpaceX and Elon for their openness and willingness to share. It is like watching the 21st century equivalent of the start of the Apollo era. Those were great days too but this is even better.

Nice shot of Venus in the background 22 minutes in...

Love it Tim! I like you have become enamored with Everything Space, and really love what you’ve been able to accomplish this far, and what you’ll be able to accomplish in the future. Hope to make it down to Starbase here with my fiancée soon!

Out of all the YouTubers Elon could have chosen to be friends with … he chose you! A dream come true - Respect!

Seems Elon embraces new ideas ‘on the fly’….

Gary Guttebo

Thank you Tim for the great interview and thank you Elon for working through the back pain. Could tell you were hurting!

David Glover

Just the best…. Huge thanks to all!

Dave Dewson

Great stuff, but you have got to call it "part deux", that is the law!

Can't wait for Part 3! I really hope Elon went into more details about the tower arms and how their supporting structure attaches to the column rails!

Awesome! Thanks Tim 🙏

Wow just wow.... best interview ever on a technical subject for sure. Amazing how you pulled that of.

Wanderkroete

Amazing Part 2. There is probably some blank parts (when you're walking through the tent and Elon is lost in his thoughts) that you can edit out

Super dope !!

What an awesome thing to watch... well done EA team. It is great to see how you and Elon get along... just two regular rocket dudes, chatting about cool rocket stuff! Side note: I suggest they call the bar: "The High Bar". After all, they have set the bar high ;)

“Booster 4: bigger than a whale”. Wow! Just wow! This was amazing. To have gained that level of respect from a visionary genius like Elon Musk is testament to your hard work, commitment and personality. Thank you so much for this incredible insight.

This was amazing

Watching Elon speak engineering is a joy to be a part of. Whenever he starts a sentence, "the right way to look at it is...", be ready for some gems.

Don't let anything drop on your head! 😆 That heat shield is so beautiful up close!

Incredible job!!

Truly one of the greatest interviews I have ever seen in my entire life. It’s just insane that you got this much Elon time and this level of engagement, access, and information. Truly amazing sir. Thank you and congrats.

To the moon 🌙

Don't worry about disclosure, I think we are mature audience....

Let's go!

Brayden McConnell

Awesome man! Congratulations!

You mofo... 2AM eastern and now I've got a reason to be awake.

Timothy Henshaw

Guess I will be sleeping later now 😌😌😁😁

HYPE!

So excited for this! You've done amazingly so far! Keep it up good sir

Jeremie Hill

You da man! Livin' the dream.

🙌🙌🙌

Woo! Thank you Tim!