Recorded just two hours after Starship’s fifth flight test, Bill Whittle dives into the MORAL RIGHTEOUSNESS that allowed a visionary to use his own private property to catch a rocket in midair and liberate his company, his country and his species from the clawing pettiness of governments and so-called ‘progressives’ whose sole reason for existence, it seems, is to neuter human achievement and cauterize our ability to dream things into existence.
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You made me realize just how “tied to the beach” like Gulliver I am. It’s too dangerous, the trip too isolating, anything fails and everyone dies, etc.
Thank you for beautifully describing what that astonishing video made me feel, a sense of hope and true joy, You are a ROCKSTAR (sorry, but that’s my favorite compliment), and I love LOVE this episode!
Right on! Great speech! You hit the nail on the head! Made my day!
While I’m as excited and impressed with this successful test as much as anyone else the really cool rocket science isn’t the point here. The point is that Elon Musk was able to accomplish this amazing feat in spite of the hindrances, obstacles and red tape the government has used to try to thwart him for no good reason other than “we say so”. If someone like Musk can do this despite the efforts to make it difficult or impossible then just think of all the great things we could have as a nation if our government just stopped doing… Read more »
When I was working whenever we reached the decision point we had one guy D who would declare himself uncomfortable In order to be absolved if anything went wrong. At one meeting, his underling sat in for him and declared ‘D is not gonna be comfortable’ . The project manager, a no nonsense Israeli, ( think Bibi) said ‘Well, he’ll just have to be uncomfortable then.’ I loved it.
Darned you, Hot MIC! You beat my Stratosphere Studio Question by 1 day! Yee Haw! LFG Elon, LFG SpaceX!!! Dancing Robots, Neurolink defeating Parkinsons, Tunnels under the San Andreas Fault, and cool shiny Tesla mini busses. Tesla Battery Walls…..What’s next Elon? Spandex Jackets? One for everyone? I was 5 when Kennedy was assassinated , 12 when we landed on the moon. 16 for the fall of Saigon, and 43 for 9/11. That one minute of a SpaceX booster return and mechzilla catch will be burned into my memory for the rest of my life. While the first flight of Falcon Heavy was a big fast beautiful YUGE effin rocket, today… Read more »
7 when Kennedy was assassinated. Was home sick from school and watched the news as it occurred. 14 for moon landing, watched live. You can figure the rest. Turned 18 AFTER the Vietnam was over. (War over January 1973. Last troops out March. Turned 18 in April. Close call!) Watched second tower come down live. “Met” Neil Armstrong (yes, that Neil Armstrong) at 23 years old. Had a blog “My encounter with Neil Armstrong” blog that disappeared when the new website was created. Plan to recreate it. But should it be a blog again, or in a Forum? And what… Read more »
This is why I majored in what I did. Musk came along a generation too late for me to be living it, but yes the whole point of this election is to get the Federal Government out of the way.
As Bill has said many times over the years, I want government I just want it back inside the box from which it came.
I won’t be going to Mars, but I would dearly love to see it happen in my lifetime.
As a space technology enthusiast and a great believer in the future of our country, this episode was inspiring to me beyond description. Bill : this was a home run, a full court nothing -but -net shot and…, well you get it. Thank you letting our feet forest of the ground!
So we dare to dream again. Yes!