Starship now NET Sept. 28, plus Starliner may have a future after all [21:53]

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Every day on this channel, I cover everything Elon Musk says on X over the last 24 hours. [music] And here’s everything he said. As always, I’ll cover one category completely before moving on to the next one. And starting with Starlink, Elon reveals that Starlink version 5 terminal is now in production. The next generation Starlink version 5 has a smaller form factor and lightweight design with greater power efficiency. With speeds up to 375 plus megabits per second, Starlink version 5 delivers reliable home internet for streaming, video calling, gaming, and more. And it’s now available in select areas.

And let’s take a look at what it looks like. You can see its sleek and slimmed down design despite delivering a lot more bandwidth. When breaking, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites perform 27,152 proactive collision avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months. The advanced autonomous system detects potential close approaches, calculates the level of risk, adjusts orbital paths when needed, and acts at a highly cautious threshold of just three and ten million. SpaceX is managing the world’s largest satellite constellation with precision automation and a safety-first approach.

Chapter 2: Starlink (2)

And Elon reposts this. And here’s a flashback for you guys. It’s Elon Musk explaining SpaceX in 2008. It was so long ago Elon needed a name tag. This is a 25-minute video. If you want to check it out, it’s going to be in the description. You guys might remember this moment right here. It’s the night SpaceX had everything on the line. Look at Elon’s stressed expression right here. They needed a successful launch and they all celebrated the moment they got it. Stage one has landed. LZ1, the Falcon has landed. Landing operators. This was December 21st, 2015. Doge designer says nearly 11 years later and it hits just as hard.

Return to flight after a rocket failure 6 months earlier. First full thrust Falcon 9. It was the first attempt to land an orbital class booster on land. They had tried the drone ship and failed. They had never successfully landed anything and mission control. It was a tense count. They went for it. 9 minutes, seconds later, a rocket that had just thrown satellites toward orbit dropped out of the Florida dark. A camera on the back of the booster caught the engine’s lighting. Still one of the most insane images in spaceflight. Legs out the Falcon has landed. That was the peak of everything they had been working towards. The whole industry said it was impossible. They bet the company on that night anyway. Spaceflight has never been the same. And Elon reposted that.

And right here is Europe’s response to Falcon 9 exiting the market. Some customers who had been turned away by SpaceX used the International Space Summit in Paris last week to lobby European institutions for financial support that would help offset the higher cost of launching with the European provider. They said actually all these customers I was here at the conference. They went to European institutions and asked if they can have a fund or something, some money to sweeten a little bit the price for them to launch with European rockets because now they no longer have a SpaceX option.

Avio’s Vega C a launch system is currently configured to support up to four flights per year. Ronzo explained that AIO may need to move more quickly toward a flight rate of six Vega missions per year. An increase he said would require additional investment and support from the European Space Agency, only six Vega missions per year. And Neil responds to Eric saying Starship will deliver somewhere between 1 million and 10 million tons per year to orbit. Even if non-SP SpaceX tonnage to orbit were to triple, it would still be less than 0.1% of what SpaceX plans to do. And he says all this is still small potatoes compared to airflight tonnage.

And China’s commercial space sector is taking major pages out of the SpaceX playbook. Land space has been progressively testing its FFSC BFF20. Now we have space pioneer revealing Tano 21 methylox engine obviously for some Starship analogy. And you can see right here, this is the Chinese engines that are copying SpaceX. Here’s a side-by-side comparison with Raptor 3 and the Tanahu 21. Very similar designs. Eric Burgerer quotes this saying, “Chinese private space companies are not screwing around. Space Pioneer, which has raised nearly $1 billion, is seeking to build a similar looking engine to Raptor 3 with virtually identical thrust.” Elon says, “I would recommend against a new company trying to make Raptor 3.” While it appears simple on the outside, necessary to survive extreme heat without a heat shield, the inside has very complex geometry that can only be manufactured using highly modified 3D metal printing.

And SpaceX shares this video. It’s 28 minutes, seconds of Starship. They say a fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. The holy grail of rocketry continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you on board a high seas race to recover a floating starship. Elon quotes this saying a new episode of SpaceX documentary and this will be in the description if you guys want to check it out. And Aaron Bernett shares his favorite phrase from this episode, the symphony of iteration. He says also one SpaceX engineer estimated that Starship surviving accelerated their learning by at least 3 months. Save this if you don’t have 20 minutes, seconds to watch now. It’s inspiring. And Elon reposted that.

And here’s Falcon 9’s liftoff yesterday. 5 4 3 2 1 ignition and lift up 259 pitching down right also shares Falcon 9’s first stage landing on the of course I still love you drone ship and moving on to Grok only Grok is the most neutral AI literally and this has been consistent across different neutrality and political bias tests. Grok stays grounded in reality and answers as truthfully as possible. Grok is an AI you can trust to give you reality, not drenched in woke garbage. And you can see on the leaning against intelligence who’s actually neutral. Grok scores the most neutral. Grok 4.3 was a close second. And you can see no other models compare. This is another test right here, the political compass test. Grok scored exactly in the center. And he reposts this. And this is day two of three SpaceX employees building a company in 3 days with Grokbot. Elon quotes this saying, “Watch a company being built live with Grokbot.”

Chapter 5: Space (1)

And on space, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says, “The moon is not the finish line. It’s the next starting point. There’s a lot we can do with the resources already on the moon. We’re going to put them to work as we build the moon base and prepare for Mars.” And Elon reposts.

Chapter 6: AI (3)

That. And on AI, Arthur McWaters provides a recap of the last week of everything we saw on this channel. We saw Daario agree with an NGO coded whistleblower named Jacob Coxin that AI has a greater than 10% chance of ending humans and we should pace the frontier.

We saw Sam and Elon Musk agree, but they kept accelerating nonetheless with Elon posting about Gro 5 and Chad GBD6 dropping. Trump posted the Trumpest post of all time and he said, “Nah, bro. We’re accelerating even harder now. Get back to work, nerds.” Also, Daario said, “AI might kill us, but it’ll also help you do lead scoring in Salesforce.” Mark Beni off framemoged everyone at Dreamforce who realized for the first time he’s 6’5 and built like a 1950s refrigerator. Trump called Jensen during the all-in summit and reiterated that there’s a hoax against data centers and we’re going to be China. And Kavvicular the streamer also went on the all-in stage and rated Chimoth a 4 out of 10 and then bragged about mogging the VC cells and getting the hottest girl at the afterparty. I’m not quite sure about this one. We did see the rest of this on the channel. Elon reposted this and Jacob Coxin just spoke on CBS. Here’s what he said.

People who are very used to computers Mhm. might think it’s kind of crazy that a computer could wipe them out, but it doesn’t look that different from say Terminator or from science fiction films. It really is just if you have a super advanced intelligence, it will be smart enough to kill us. And concrete examples might be it could we can’t just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it’s not that difficult to find yourself cuz an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place. And then you unplug it here, but it’s actually still over there. And maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they’re all cooperating. So you unplug half of them, they’re still half going and they’re still copying themselves. It could convince blackmail or persuade humans into buying more computing software to copy it. And we’ve already seen examples of the AI trying to blackmail or trying to convince people or impersonating other people online.

Elen responds to that video saying, “He really does look like Harry Potter. It’s uncanny.” And Gavin Baker says, “We’ve experienced extraordinary share gains for OpenAI versus Anthropic over the last two months. Per Open Router, OpenAI has gone from 20% share to 50% share versus Anthropic, meaning Anthropic has gone from 80% to 50% since June. And you can see in the race to build the frontier, OpenAI is now winning. Fable had a vast majority of the market share, but when OpenAI launched Astra, it just took over. And so this trend really just was over the last couple weeks. Anyone says AI is the highest ELO competition ever. Moving on to politics.

Chapter 7: Corruption (2)

Released emails show an FBI agent requesting to criminally investigate Elon for facilitating an email asking government employees to list five things they accomplished that week. And you can see it starts off by saying, “Steve, I would like to recommend the opening of a criminal 58 matter on the person at OPM who approved the transmission of the earlier email.” It goes on to say, “Furthermore, Musk used a non-government system, Twitter, to relate information that allegedly was for official purposes.” And he ends it with saying, “And no, I’m not kidding. We should investigate Musk.” And Arthur McWaters quotes this saying, “Imagine being so terrified of this that you want to criminally investigate Elon.” And that’s Elon asking, “What did you get done this week?”

New House Judiciary Report just dropped screenshots of Act Blue, a Democrat super PAC’s internal Slack messages. They show that staff knowingly waved through foreign donations using verification methods you won’t believe. Act Blue told Congress its passport verification stops foreign donors. Their own policy says otherwise. It only checks that the number has the right number of characters. No database check. No real verification ever. So what actually gets a foreign donation approved for Act Blue? Well, a supervisor’s own words make it clear. The donor is foreign but correctly entered their billing address. So it was approved. And here’s another one. A donor sometimes has an IP in Hong Kong, but none of their other signals raise any eyebrows. Approved. Here’s the one that should end the debate. A donor’s information pointed entirely to Canada. Act Blue approved it anyway because, and this is a real quote, “Twitter seems to confirm that they are a real person,” and it happened more than once. Another foreign flag donor got waved through because they had a LinkedIn.

When Act Blue’s own legal counsel, Zayn Ahmad, tried to report this, it deleted his messages in real time. This one says, “Please stop deleting my request. You are violating the laws and policies of our company.” And it was deleted 5 seconds later. It happened six times that night. He even sent ACLU’s own whistleblower protection policy, which was deleted. Then the non-retaliation policy, which was deleted, too. Outside counsel told Act Blue’s CEO this looked knowing and willful, and warned her to get a personal lawyer. She fired the law firm instead. Every lawyer in Act Blue’s legal team was gone within 4 months of the 2024 election. Neil reposted Joe Lonzio says, “Wow, got them dead to rights. A main fundraising apparatus of the left was consistently and knowingly breaking the law and hiding it. If it was the right caught doing this, it would 100% be top news stories for weeks in the legacy media. And India has 1.5 billion people. Africa is 1.6 billion.

Chapter 8: Wokeness (4)

The US has 340 million, the UK with only 69, France 66, Spain 49, Canada 41, Sweden 10, and Ireland 5. Greger Capital says if mass immigration continues, western nations, cultures, and peoples will be gone. Anyone says that is a simple statement of fact. And Elizabeth Warren says, “Today I’m calling to immediately pressure pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.” Eric says, “Thank you because I think your public support for a pause will help prevent it from happening.” And Elon has a laugh at that. And the rabbit hole says, “If everyone is a far-right Nazi, then no one is a far-right Nazi. Words can be diluted of meaning. Anyone says 100.” And here’s Gad Sad on the Katie Miller podcast talking about transgenderism.

Why do you think more kids than ever in the United States and of the Western world have identified as transgender and non-binary than previous decades? So there is what happened that suddenly caused a rise? So there is a paper that was published I think in 2018 by a pediatrician where she argued that transgenderism is akin to a social contagion and then I don’t know if you remember she I think she was an instructor or something at Brown University and at first they hailed the paper then there was big blowback are you calling transgenderism of a disease that spreads remember this and then they kind of sort of retracted it. It is a fad right so many people wish to stroke their luxuriant hair in the mirror of moral pining look how beautiful I am. Look how good a person I am. And so transgenderism becomes a pathway to demonstrate how enlightened and accepting and compassionate and kind and empathetic I am. And when I am a Hollywood superstar, as you said earlier, I mean the stats on having one transgender child are abysmally low. Having two, three, or four is non-existent. And so it just becomes a pathway for me to demonstrate that I’m deserving of empathy. And by the way, there’s a term here that you may have heard. Munchausen syndrome is I had written a paper in a medical journal in 2010 on this which I then picked up in parasitic mind. It’s a form of Munchausen, right? Because what’s happening with Munchausen? So Munchausen syndrome is when I feign an illness to garner sympathy and empathy. Munchausen syndrome by proxy is when I cause injury to someone that I care for, my biological child, my pet, my elderly parents, because I’m going to get the empathy and sympathy by proxy through harming them. Look, I’ve got an ailing child. And so the transgender parent that you see with the Hollywood stars, they’re engaging in munch by proxy.

And Elon reposts that video. And moving on from politics, Elon Musk says, “My mom’s book is coming out soon,” tagging his mom. It’s called Timeless Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age.
Chapter 9: About Elon (3)

You guys might remember this post right here going through everything we’ve seen about artificial intelligence, including that Kavvicular, the streamer, also went on the all-in stage and rated Chimoth a 4 out of 10. And then bragged about mogging the VC cells and getting the hottest girl at the afterparty to this. Hobby says, “Man, I’m effing tired.” Neon says, “Me, too.” Having a laugh.
And this right here is the rise and fall of wokeness. These are DEI commitments and corporate security disclosures filed with the SEC. You can see under Biden, they peaked and they dropped dramatically around this point in 2025. But look at this right here. The real decline starts when Elon bought Twitter in November 2022. Right here, Arthur McWaters says, “Elon buying Twitter and restoring free speech was unironically one of the most pivotal moments in the 21st century. Its effects will be studied for generations.” And he quotes this today saying, “I still think about this all the time.” And Elon reposts this. And so that, my friends, with everything Elon said [music] today. We saw massive numbers on SpaceX’s Starship tonnage and we saw that Chinese companies [music] are trying to copy Raptor. Starlink revealed the version 5 terminal and how much is going to increase Starlink bandwidth and that’s coinciding with Starlink [music] version 3 that we saw will be going up on September 22nd with Starship’s first two orbit launch. Grockbot is on day two of building a company and Grock is the most politically neutral artificial intelligence, the only one of the AI models that’s in the center. [music] And finally, we got to see the Act Blue scandal, which they were allowing foreign donations. But anyway, that’s everything I have for you guys. As always, if you guys would like early access to these videos and a weekly summary of everything Elon says, consider joining this channel as a member, and I will see you guys tomorrow.

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