"the Meth-strel" ?

Sounds like a tweaker problem 🤣

Sounds like what elon gonna name it lol

Kestrel is also slang for ketamine, so "kestrel on meth sounds like quite the junkie

So, we have MVac, RVac... Next up, KMeth? "KMeth 1 through 20 ignition confirmed..."

“A long time”

BFR is the name of intercontinental version of Starship, as everyone knows.

@@erkinalp well obviously not everyone knows because I haven’t heard it call that. I’ve always heard it called the suborbital or point to point starhip

@@ryanhamstra49 then you simply haven't been interested in SpaceX for that long. Welcome! And BFR is short for Big Fucking Rocket which he called starship in the beginning.

@@lokeegnell3991 I think he's saying he's never heard that they call the intercontinental version the BFR, not that he has never heard the starship called the BFR in general. I have been around since it was called BFR, but ive never heard of the idea that the intercontinental version is still called the BFR.

It would be nice to add "RICK" Astley on the "ROLL" thruster

@@goldmax1412 What about ROCK Hudson?

Lmao! That's brilliant! I love SpaceX engineers!

And here I was figuring it would be someone known for being full of hot air.

I thought it looked like Ben Shapiro, and it was a "hot air" joke... 😅

That fast paced ambition is bankrupting them a bit. They needed to sell cable (Starlink) to keep the company funded. Didn’t work out for Iridium, so we shall see if Starlink fails soon enough.

@@grnmjolnir Just got an email this morning here in Ireland asking me to order my Starlink equipment. Hmm... Maybe...

15 years isn't that fast. Look at the Apollo program.

@@Withnail1969 But the budget for Apollo was massive and NASA had access to existing military launch vehicles, processes, and personnel. Not compable at all.

@@jshepard152 Isn't the budget for Space X pretty big? They seem to be able to afford a lot of destroyed rockets.

That and an assortment of colored pills

No they need to putt jeff who on top 😂😂

@@dad3297 No golf clubs allowed on the vee hickle.

Probably 2020

@@HELLO7657 really gave me a good chuckle lol ty

Whos years? What calendar..

@@jannejohansson3383 well it can't be mayan... it's off by 2012 year.

@Infamous Grizzly I'm calling that claim "citation needed".

I only realized this when I read your comment...

@@godblessknight I got it wrong too, lol. It was "Is Will Move," not "Is Will to Move"

@@PuddintameXYZ Wait, lol now im extra confused... there, copy pasted: "Why SpaceX Is Will Move To New Thrusters To Simplify Starship"

@@astronichols1900 That's what my notification says. LOL.

All Your Thrusters Are Belong to Us

That was the internal file name for this video

Hah! I love it. A file name is always good for an extra chuckle, even if no one else sees it. Oh, and hey, thanks for yet another excellent rundown of rocket-based goodness!

Ugh great it's stuck in my head now lol ahhhh

time for a remix by someone on YT... and make it 4:20 long song

that wood be good

in which he saw alien ships! dah da daaaa

Awesome idea. Buzz would probably appreciate that.

No doubt Buzz would love that, but Neil was flying.

Buzz prefers booze to meth.

If you count each atom as an individual object, you're not wrong.

@@44R0Ndin What are you talking about?

@@Alex-lc1bv exhaust gasses in engine are accelerated to hypersonic speeds, and well, gas is group of molecules

@@Alex-lc1bv The atoms that make the propellant for the thruster, if counted as individual objects, would be "several objects breaking the sound barrier at once", which is what OP said it sounded like.

@@44R0Ndin This actually also goes for many of the atoms/molecules in room temperature air. :)

Scott manlet lol

You just got the order wrong. Feed it meth and it will soon be spaced out.

This is a Kestrel. This is a Kestrel on meth. Any questions?

@@jonathanbush6197 yes, will cocaine suffice?

@@KRDecade2009 Only to get the kestrel suborbital, and Bezos makes fun of you for it.

Oy, you have to supply the meth before you hit the vacuum! Also you ma y need to upgrade your kestrels to properly space rated ones. Inferior ones are only air rated and will just let you down - not gently, by the way.

Now they're going to build a Raptor factory there, which will bring in 500 jobs. It's going to be a real boom town.

@@odysseusrex5908 i do wonder, out of the rocket industry EMs which is the most provider of jobs... would it be a Incumbents Vs New Age Silicon Valley or NASA family (including SpaceX (cos of the falcons) ) vs Independent rocket scientists

IIRC he said McCaffrey consulted him for space/orbal/whatever concepts on one of the books.

Was she? I recently re-read a couple of those books, the writing isn't actually very good nor are the characters particularly compelling or believable. I think the best thing that can be said is she put the work in to create a fairly rich world of thingamabobs.

... and the one of the consultants was Scott Manley. I mean, literally. He helped to correct some issues with astronomical dates, so events don't mess up with chronology.

@@Immanatum for the dragon books released decades ago?

@@meiqurorez8677 yeah, the latest editions have some corrections which removes some contradictions with dates. Scott Manley, somehow, was a consultant, who helped to correct those mistakes.

We made a deal with E T THEY WANT TO CHECH OUT THE BOOSTERS. SO I OKED IT.

they create good ecosystems for life down there

Mr Nimbus loves a...

Wassump tank?

They are providing them with vessels to finally leave before earth's ultimate destruction.

Can anyone give me a lift to Proxima Centuari?

*So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish*

How else are they going to get off this planet if not Starship, right? Lol. Oh wait, maybe they should hang tight for a while yet.

@@jh1859 Dont Panic

A fellow Star Citizen, I presume?

@@CurtWatson greebling is an ancient modeling term, like physical model modeling, like original Star Wars (from whence I heard it)

@@SimonBuchanNz Huh. I've only ever heard it used by one person (a Star Citizen dev) so I had assumed he made it up. 😅

Let me tell you I have handled kestrels and they are pretty high strung like they are on meth most of the time! lol

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 - that's what worries me. (I have a friend who owns & trains birds of prey, including a couple of peregrines.)

@@tavdy79 I don't see why you be worried. A person who trains raptors knows what they are doing.

Someone please make this their new band name. I’ll be a fan, I promise!

well that's pretty obvious. They'll hop outside and push!

I'm not that knowledgeable about these things. But I don't think RCS thrusters have enough power to get you home. If they'll let you point yourself a little better. But no enough power for a transfer or de-orbit. (Unless it's taking a LONG time.) Only way you could "limp home" with RCS is if you have "game mechanics" and the RCS system somehow has unlimited fuel. But then again, I'm likely taking this too far.

@@zidaryn yeah, this is a kerbal space program joke lol. Everyone has done it before

On the fumes left over by the big engines.

If something that big survives toppling in the ocean I will be impressed.

inconel perhaps, but 304 would probably look like shit in any extended interaction with seawater.

I just hope they get very good close-ups of the heat shield tiles on S20 before it splashes down. The booster will be fine if it does its job. Off and build another set of 35 to 39 Raptors for S21/B5!

I think the engines are the most expensive parts of the vehicle and im not sure how well these will handle seawater

@@pascalwiery7129 Not at all. They will be demolished on landing.

No glue. All identical (well, 3 sizes). Starship is not at all as vulnerable to high temperatures.

@@knowlegeisgood8735 the last point is very valid. It has been speculated that if the shuttle had a stainless steel instead of aluminum structure then Columbia might have survived STS 107.

A Cold gas thruster is basically, a compressed gas tank attached to a strategically placed valve(which act as the thruster), which he mentions in the video 6:25.

87 sounds very low... can't get anything below 95 here, the old 92 was gone years ago :)

@@YoursNKR Basically, a fire extinguisher.

@@benbaselet2026 Europe reports octane rating differently than the US. Europe gives the RON number on the pump and US is an average of RON and MON. 95 in Europe is the same as 87 in the US.

@@RCAvhstape Hey, it worked for Wall-e.. ;)

Taco Bell to provide the methane? One dozen bean burritos, please.

@@michaelgian2649 lol

Meltdown

Why not both! Both of them are great informative creators.

@@samcarpenter_ I prefer Manley.

* coffee spit-take * 😂

I heard that lolz!!!

Kethalox?

Did Lucas ever make hp diesel pumps. If they are buying off the shelf they should probably go with Bosch. And maybe be careful if of eBay knock-offs.

The problem is the flow rate needed at such high pressures, also i'm pretty sure all high pressure fuel pumps for diesels are mechanical, so they would have to include a turbo pump anyways.

@@NNFaNRacing centaur rocket stage was going to use small hydrogen powered internal combustion engine to charge batteries and chill propellant (I have no idea if this was implemented). SpaceX might turn on Raptor briefly to replenish pressurized gaseous methane and oxygen in small tanks using mighty pumps.

@@NNFaNRacing are all diesel pumps not mechanical anyway? The difference being what drives the mechanical pump. Cam shaft? Elon's giant fire cracker probably hasn't got one of those. Electric Motor? I reckon he's got loads of spare AC motors that can do the job. If only he could get the battery weight down.

@@richardschofield2201 they can use solar panels for anything this side of Mars.

The day they have the throttling control to actually land the thing on the nozzle bells is the day I'll officially declare any other space contender stone age technology! :P

None of the boosters are ever going to land.

They might add landing legs for early versions (maybe even Starhopper like ones to reduce complexity)

@@ImieNazwiskoOK that adds complexity.

@@Hansengineering Minimal complexity with a lot to learn from it. They already made starhopper, so they just need to make those legs stronger. And they could gather far more data with it. I think some are just too paranoid about too much complexity.

That's kind of at the wrong end of the ship though...

Engine: "I'm a Kestrel on meth." Rodents: "Run. Hide."

why? meth is great!

@@cokeforever What's great about it? It rots your brain.

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 PR bullshit rots your brain... CNS-stimulators make it work on higher impulse frequency.

I was hoping for this too but its the new tesla roadster and then they have to do the spacex package. They are working on the new roadster, but its prolly behind the 25K car, and the tesla semi, to be honest. What they did with the latest model S was make it the fastest production car on the planet... so why would they one up their own car, and drop a Billion dollars on a whole new car and a billion on RCS thrusters

@@davidanalyst671 I don't think it would take billions, millions maybe, but probably not that much. The cold thrust RCS they already have . As for why would they? For the fun of it. If anyone will ever do it it's musk.. I mean the guy launched a car to space. Here's hoping

@@jameshughes3014 I could see them doing a one off prototype with RCS thrusters but it probably won't be road legal, or anything you can buy. The shape of a car's headlights has to conform to pedestrian safety regulations, now imagine stuffing a tank of rocket fuel in a car.

@@NNFaNRacing I suspect that if its done, they'd just say "only use the rockets when you're not on the road', kind of like cars with other fancy addons. as for rocket fuel, I think the RCS thrusters they were talking about use Nitrogen, it's not that scary

@@jameshughes3014 musk launched his personal car into space for awareness and to get more contracts. It made national news and gave him hundreds of millions in launch contracts. Car manufacturers don't just drop crazy money on stuff. Its a very very tight industry. Especially since Japan and Korea came over here and destroyed american car makers in the 90s and 00s. Unless you have some special insight, every car tesla has made cost a billion to engineer. The first couple didn't literally cost a billion because the engineers worked day and night with no overtime pay. I sure hope tesla stops doing that. cars like the old roadster, the maclaren and the bugatti veyron never make any profits. lolz then after making the car he has to pay spacex engineers to come over and put thrusters in it, which adds a lot of stress to the frame of the car. I was hoping he would dump thrusters in a frame upgraded model S and call it a day, but this ambition to make the most amazing car in the world is going to cost a shttload.

Remember, Pillage, THEN burn.

I'm searching the comments for the face

Probably necessary for the Mars plan.

I hope the use them on all starships. I secretly hope that using them instead of the raptors for the flip up.

I want to document that I was early enough to see it

It made me think of the famous line from Tony Hancock's "The Radio Ham" : 'It is are not raining in Tokyo!' 🤣🤣🤣

Lioks fine to me

@@scottslotterbeck3796 you shure?

It really came for me. I tried to tell my wife in a text "waiting to get paid", autocorrect changed it to "waiting to get laid". I'll let you guess how that turned out......

Suspect they will pretty much come to a hover using the main engine 10 - 20m off the ground. Then swap to the landing thrusters, they don’t need to be capable of much more than hovering the rocket with some redundancy.

@SpaceManMat I think they would also need power to take off to small altitude. To not have same problem as once on testing with martyte in flight (piece of martyte broke off concrete and destroyed the engine).

@@ImieNazwiskoOK true, but no need to be massively powerful, again just need to rise about 20m off the ground then light one main engine. At that height the gas disperses rapidity. Look at pictures under the moon landers, their engines ran right next to the ground, there is very little disturbance other than directly under the engine.