Let's see here Says going live. It's always awkward because I never actually sure when it went live So hello, everyone. My name is Jamie Higginbotham. I am the executive producer and creator of tomorrow You have not seen me around for a little while I Just kind of wanted like I had to come to the studio Perform some updates on systems make sure that the studio is still working because we are going to bring back live shows And so it's important to me that everything's remains in a functional state Also, you never know like when I might need the studio at a moment's notice And so it's important for me to keep you know it all running So running like macOS updates here. I think I have Here so you can see on the screen on the left The the screen that's vertical instead of horizontal that screen is actually the screen the chat room For the talent who's out there because we needed to be taller than wider, right? So we're running a macOS update on that It's kind of hard to see in that picture But there's a little Mac mini that sits behind there and then let me see if I can bring up any of these I don't think I have I do look at that So you can actually see I'm running updates. So hi. I'm in this quadrant So you can see oh, I need to update my world of you too You can see that I'm actually running an update on Mac 11. Well Mac 1 It's three screen outputs on Mac 1 and then on Mac 2. I'm gonna log into get rid of zoom for a moment And there are more updates that I need to apply. Yep. Here we are So we're gonna let it do its thing And that's gonna take one unit forever. So all on the Mac and Tasha's look it up to date Um The windows computer has just got up to date. I've actually got an Ubuntu system that just got up to date So we use I use a little bit of everything Everywhere and then like hi everyone. So let me see it's been a little while and I moved everything because we have a new board So oh, I don't have this up and running. So here you can actually see on I'll just take it air This is the cast proceed. Oh, it's really low resolution Wonder why excuse me This is the cast procedure system. This is what drives the overlays And so when I like you guys are saying things And so when I push something to air, let me find something Uh, you think this is a funny one challenge will be able to see us So I hit, you know, push this to air that thing that pops up on the bottom That uh dos prompt in the middle the command prompt in the middle You can actually see it was sending the commands to that to actually generate that and that's all done by colton But then we also use this system Just in a chrome browser Oh, that is an old thumbnail of me Uh, so there you go and then I can actually push What is happening here we go I can push that To air whatever I want. So, uh, oops, that's not what I want either. Uh, it's so many buttons. So, yeah, there you go Um, so I'm just kind of came in I figured I'd do some updates and while I'm here Like test the live broadcast system make sure the audio is working make sure we can still broadcast to the world And if I'm going to do that Why not make it public?  Thank you so much Oh, yeah, it's coming along. So like This is coming along getting there um Oh michael says the stream was great as expected the other day I assume I assume this is in regards to the starlink, uh, the starlink flight that happened last week which was I had been trying for so long to get this to go It is the first time we had stage one and stage two telemetry on the screen at the same time I cannot tell you how is it first. I cannot tell you how badly I wanted to Let everyone know that this was the thing that was coming Because how exciting how cool is that? I've known for like obviously been working on it for a long time. Um And I wanted to just tell everyone to be like, oh my god It's coming because everyone's begging me for this feature forever begging me for this feature I don't want to be like, I know I know I know but I couldn't say anything obviously So it was really exciting to finally be able to bring that to air and I actually like have that and then I'm nervous, right because you know It's one thing doing it with test telemetry, but it's another thing doing it in production, right? So I tested it. I tested it a lot. I made sure it was all going to work And it did and it did but like you don't know what you don't know And so as we you know, I know what the timeline sequence is because I built it right for the graphics So I'm like, I know when things are going to occur I know when automation is kicking in and you know the the banner at the bottom says, you know sES1 and I'm like, okay I have seven seconds in seven seconds. Everything's going to be amazing Or everything is going to be awful and I need to take the graphics off the screen I wasn't sure what was going to happen and um, it was amazing. It was absolutely amazing I don't know how many people caught it because Um, when we lift it off a t-minus three seconds or so It actually it's It's not quite that it's not quite done that way, but at t-minus three seconds You'll see the telemetry markers on the left hand side pop on and they'd actually tell you what stage they're tracking stage two stage one But it's it's really subtle. It's really subtle. You have to like Read it to realize what's happening and there was no reason to think that we would show you stage one telemetry in the left hand side Why would we do it? We've never done it before Other than like an nro mission or some mission where we're not allowed to follow stage two But this is star link. You're allowed to follow stage two. So why would but I was waiting for someone to notice I was waiting for someone to ping me and go. Um What you doing and no one did it wasn't until seven seconds after sES one where the internet lost their mind It I did too. It it was so amazing. It was so amazing Uh, kenji says, uh, I think I've seen tim dodd use this system. Um, so there you go. There's that Uh, yeah, absolutely. So this is actually known. Well, this is the predecessor to something we call cosmo, which is It's a background chat Oh god, what does the background stand for? Hang on. Hang on. I have it. I have the uh, Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Oh, no. It's a video. Hang on chat and on-screen management system No, operations chat and on-screen management operations Cosmo, that's what the graphics system is called. Uh, this is made by, um, uh, Basically one of the few people who has been with tomorrow since Quite literally before day one. It's colton And he built it for tomorrow and we thought it was stupid and selfish for us to keep it to ourselves And so we've been giving it out for free to other entities that might want to use it And it's I think a very powerful and amazing system. Um Uh, in fact, he actually just pinged it live, but it's working It's all working So anyhow, yep, let me go back to this Uh, oh, yeah, there there's colton. In fact, they love the excitement. This is what I've been here all this time Yeah, absolutely, right like, um, all of this is really cool stuff I love the chat integration at the bottom like and also like I can do the full screen stuff I think that's what sets tomorrow apart. I think that Conversations are absolutely key. If I keep looking out there, it's because I'm trying to I'm trying to see the I'm I'm tired apparently all of my technical director friends are going to give me endless crap for the bad punches I've been making But you can see on that on the the vertical screen how the update's not quite there So I'm kind of waiting for that screen to go and then I'm going to pop out on set Make sure that I can see stuff out there and then I'll talk to you guys from out there It'll be a little bit easier. Um, let's see here Uh, yeah juggling lessons said I noticed when the altitude started to drop and then I realized there were two telemetries. Yeah, right? Oh, I mean Yeah, I the nice thing is about that the nice thing about how everything goes is I feel like The graphics enhance the launch and they don't take away from it So the movements there's a little bit of movement there It's designed to like capture your eye, but not distract you So it's a little bit of like hey, just you know something's happening But if you don't want to look that's okay And so it's kind of like a little like hey stage separation. Well, I suppose it's it's meko State separation s e s one and it was a really quick little like by the way here stage two telemetry And the really great thing about that Is now it's oriented in the correct way, right? You it goes to the double. I don't know if I have a double Yeah, it goes to something that's similar to this Um where you've got you know the stage one on the left side and stage two on the right hand side But then on the lower left hand side you end up with stage one telemetry and on the lower right hand side You end up with stage one or it's no lower left to stage one telemetry lower right to stage two telemetry So it matches what's going on on the screen, which I think is nice. Um, yeah Colton says cosmos so freaking awesome. Yeah Right, I agree. I'm I'm really excited for cosmo. I gotta figure out why that computer is so low at low resolution um Hugo says is this person Yes, this is person I don't I don't know what that means Uh, let's see here. Uh, listen here Blake Blake said I don't understand this statement also note all the wiring that Isn't seen behind all the equipment. I assume that's with regards to like this So you can see we'll wait for that lower third to pop off. Um, but yeah, you can see some of it Actually, there's um, I will do my best to give you a tour as to how this all works And by the way ask, uh, so I have to walk away I'll do this Try not to I have to walk away from this room in order to do that So I won't be able to see the chat room, which is right here So I won't be able to bring you guys up on air. Uh, I will kind of be able to see the chat room I'll I'll put up in my preview. Uh, so like leave your comments and I'll get back to them in just a moment But I'll give you a quick tour and run through of like how all of that works So let me bring this up whole screen To boop, but do and then I need to bring This is my td computer. Okay if I put that in preview, I can kind of see it And someone said hi jamey. It was Dang, it's here Says hi jamey Uh, daniel asked if the rest of the tomorrow crew is still around kind of like, uh, jared is still producing Space news, uh, and then you know, he had a bunch of stuff happen in life as everyone does And so ryan has been taking over and has been doing just an absolutely phenomenal job So, um, yeah, like we're still around. We're still doing stuff But it's not the live shows live shows will come back, which is of course why I'm here Right now like actually making all of this go But um, not at this exact moment in time. I need a little bit more time for me But as you can see it's getting a lot closer. So we're getting there. All right, so, um, let's see. I think it was It's that one. So, um, we actually have wall plates. So I have cabling that goes Um Into engineering which you can't see through the walls and down and it terminates as b and c Uh, and then this is all 1694 cable and we use purple cable because tomorrow is purple I actually use a different color cable at space x that way I can make sure that I never mix and match my cables So I always know who owns what cable Um And then that gets wound into and there are two cables that go to every camera One is an input and one is an output and then those run over to like this guy right here Right and you can see going in and out of the camera And then power and so that's the only thing that goes to the camera. Um, the cameras are actually pretty neat they have the integrated screen Let me turn this one on So everything's kind of integrated.   So now you can see like that's the whole camera Right, so it's kind of like an ipad with a lens. Uh, and it's an mft mount Which is not my favorite because there isn't like super great mft glass out there Like there's not bad mft glass, but like it's all photo glass. It's not really video glass So it's hard to find like par focal mft glass or really really fast glass really clear glass Um, when these first came out, I really thought mft was going to be it now. I'm not so sure But you know, here's what it is. Let's see what you guys have said Uh, let's see here Matty says great to see you live again. Jamie you're looking great. Thank you so much. Um Taren says most of the crew's news team, yeah Matty says, it sounds like ryan will have more tomorrow for us soon. Yeah, I think so Uh, jttv says like why you look great Uh, jason fen says I don't like liars. I'm not sure what that's in reference to but okay Jamie said the name that shall not be mentioned for company exit. Yeah, I suppose Um And william says great to see you on air quite a transformation. Yeah, I got I got a little ways to go yet So does this so this has three minutes remaining. So we'll go back into the control room for now Um, just kind of check on the other systems Also, when is blue good like I feel for so first off, here's a question for the group. Here's an aerospace question for the group Um Well, did that get stuck on air that got stuck on air. We'll just forcefully take it off Uh, oh someone sorry. It was pushed on air um so It's all good. Colton. I just I thought I pushed it on air and then like And then it got stuck I know every one of my td friends darren's gonna watch this and be like, what the hell? Yeah, it's fine. It's late. It's late. I'm I'm like doing other stuff. I'm not here to direct. So is what it is um, and then yeah, like I got Um, mac 2 is getting pretty close Right. So infinite repeating. So we've got two minutes left on that one Um, newer stream says you mentioned bnc connectors Uh, I can't find it. Here we go Uh, do you find that copper is better than suits my need better than fiber? No I find that it depends on what I need to do. So in the studio, I only need to go 20 meters maybe maybe um Yeah, 20 meters 60 feet or so from maybe a little bit longer from The camera back to the engineering gear. We're going a distance that short doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have two SFPs two different lasers a whole bunch of very fragile fiber optic cable To go a really short distance. It doesn't make sense Uh, and I'm pushing 4k over that cable. Just fine, right at 21 60p And I think we're 24 frame, but whatever. Oops. I need to Need to log into mac 2 now Here, I'll let you guys watch log into mac 2 And let's make that go away That's much easier. So this is some of the upgrades I'm running tonight. Just this It's really hard to do through vnc It's so laggy I agree. I'm not sure what I just agreed to but So there's that and I need to get out of this I'm back to this Oh max said yes. So actually, this is a good point blue just launched last week So I wanted to talk about blue because it feels like blue and virgin galactic are neck and neck when it comes to flying humans Um pain passengers. Sorry pain passengers to space because technically speaking virgin galactic has flown humans And blue has not right blue has flown blue has flown Mannequin Skywalker, but they've not actually flown actual meatbags into space Whereas virgin galactic they have their pilot and co-pilot and then they recently flew their Oh The other system is coming up. So we'll head back out here Oop You have to make the noise or it doesn't work So let's see how painful this ends up being It's sideways So now I need to go into the system preference until it's stopping sideways Oh, it's hard to do Don't be sideways system preferences Displays This is really difficult to do okay, uh rotation I don't want no because that's just gonna make a move this way. I wanted 180 remember how many I need to go is it just 90? No because 90 makes it upside down So I need that makes it that way. Is it just 90? Oh, I guess it is just But if it's going that way Oh, no, it's good. It is going that way I wish I would tell you which way they're rotating the screen left or right Right like that it makes a difference because otherwise I'm trying to figure out how many degrees I need to rotate the screen and I can't Anyhow Should have been a little free of that. Well, I'll put the last okay sweet. So this is up And now I need to open up you Let's see if google needs an update. Let's see if there are there are more updates. It looks like I know fascinating stuff you guys watching me update mac os Oh, this is just an apple id issue We've detected you're not giving us enough money All right chat I believe in you And the nice thing is once I oh, you have been kind of able to see what I'm doing once I get this going I should be able to Yeah, there we go Michael Biggs as if there was a chance it would not need an update. I know right all right It's fine there. Uh, and you can kind of see I can I can aperture down a little bit But you can kind of see like how big this is so when you're sitting in the chair You can actually just kind of read all of this just turn the monitor. That's funny You can you can read the entire screen. Let me let me bring that down a little bit So you actually get an idea as to like what that all looks like like our interface to life Oh, that was my knee that was measles All right camera one we'll bring this Oh, wow There you go. Right. So it's a little bit easier I see me right a little bit easier to see the screen and like everything else when I do it that way Um, all right. So mac one If we go over to mac one Uh, well, hang on give me a minute. I'm gonna I'm gonna enter that in First let's see here. Nope We don't like because we need anyone to be able to I know It's super insecure The world is ending. Uh, nope. I don't want you to do any of this Turn it all off and zoom kicked in. Okay, we'll close out of that All right, great looks like this system is oops. I forgot that I can't do that on this keyboard This system is good to go So I got one mac. Well, I got two macs down now, right? Um, let's see here. I can probably go to this camera And do I have an iPad here? I feel like I should Sorry everyone. Give me a minute while I search The studio for an iPad if I can find an iPad. I'll just use that to I do have a coffee like probably hear me drinking. Sorry Oh, let's try this one. This one probably has power. It's not really designed for this but who cares Oh, so four updates complete. Don't do this Don't you like everything's getting updated everything needs an update. I remember to switch the camera. Nope So you can kind of see how everything's coming back together Uh, hopefully we won't be off for too much longer with regards to live shows get some bubbly Um, let's hear. No, don't use a passcode. I know it's super insecure. That's fine Um, uh, don't upgrade account.  Thank you chat.tmro.tv Hey colton since you're around I'm going to register as a new account if that's okay The second one to try Key clicks are still on that's annoying Be right back. No, I never got the Never got the email confirmation, but it's fine Okay, I'll get back into the mic. Thank you for the upgrade colton Um, we'll get rid of the uterilist. Am I in there? Yeah, I'm an op awesome Uh, and then let me size this up a little bit. This is very touchy. Okay, so let's see where we're at. Um Colton says it's actually super nice to see the studio again. Yeah, I mean, it's just going to take a minute Um Colton says that's going to fail. Well, all right. Thank you. Hi vex. How's it going? So, yeah, uh, just Around because I needed to maintain the studio. I figured Pop on in like doing a test making sure everything stays stays live Daniel. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong cleavage. Okay, I guess we'll get used to that. Yeah you can like I have him so I mean, what'd you expect I I was pretty upfront and clear with the community It's also why we haven't been live to be honest. It's it's fundamentally my fault. I just haven't been super comfortable on camera Um, not super happy with where my voice was. I'm not really happy with where my voice is right now It's a lot better like even if you go back to the last few times I was live like you can hear an improvement, but it's still not right. It's there's certain words that are still wrong. Um It's not right. It's not bad, but it's not right, you know, uh, you are not wrong And hips also correct. So, um You know, I did a couple surgeries since you saw me last, uh face is one of the surgeries, uh I won't necessarily go into the details as to what they did there But like it was a lot of work and a lot that they did in the face and then um, They did this section the whole thing.  I apologize. I don't know how to say your name. Dottie's daughter starting her transition. Uh transition. It's so humbling. Yeah Um, yeah So yeah, any thank you very much. I really like to be blunt I'll talk about a little bit because it's it's Why we haven't had live shows is my transition um, but Because i'm not comfortable on camera and not comfortable with my voice getting better Um, I've got one more surgery. Uh, nope. I have two more surgeries I have one on february 16th where they're gonna move they're gonna do hair transplants They're gonna move hair from the back kind of fill in some of the area up in here And cover some of the scars that were left by uh facial feminization surgery Which would be nice We're actually going to bring it fairly far Forward and then give me a little bit of a widow's peak. So I have kind of a heart shape on my face Which I think will look nice That surgery is one of the few where they do the surgery And then like you don't get to see the results right away because it's hair, right? And so you have to wait for the hair to grow and hair grows at Normal hair growth rate And so it's going to take quite literally years for that to get to like this length It'll take about two years for it to get to this length Um, but i'm not gonna wait. I'm not gonna wait two years But we are gonna wait until after that surgery It's going to create some swelling and some not so greatness in my in my face area And then that will be the last surgery that's like Forward facing There's one final surgery after that that will happen at the end of this year You all won't be able to see or tell frankly. I will see and tell But that one is going to take me out of commission for a while So what i'm trying to decide is do I bring back the live shows Shortly after the hair surgery to the point where like I don't look like a bloody mess anymore, right? Where I look fairly normal, but with like weird bumps up here And then just do them probably every friday instead of saturday I think we're going to move the show time a little bit just to work a little bit better with my day job schedule or Do I wait into So the advantage of that is we get live shows back like March april time frame probably probably closer to april realistically And you get them back for like five six months But then you're going to lose them again For probably a couple of months and I feel like Coming back and then leaving again for an extended amount of time is damaging And I realize that not having the shows at all right now is also damaging But I'm trying to decide which is more damaging coming back and then having another extended outage or just extending it Waiting for the right timing and then bringing them back um And I appreciate it like you all have been absolutely incredible um, you know juggling lessons Please live shows as soon as you can you're motivated. I miss you and carrying out. Well, I've been I've been motivated for a while I love doing live shows. I love interacting with everyone like This is I this is just so much fun um Yeah Like colton says for sure come back for the small time, but like Yeah, that's the other funny things but so nasa like I created a large gaping hole in the industry Like tomorrow used to effectively own this space right? Um, and it's it's all my fault like I'm not going to point my finger anywhere else We had live shows we had an interactive community.  We've been doing this for Uh over 10 years at this point. Um, we were every saturday. We were really reliable. You knew where to go We never really had a whole lot of growth That's also my fault. I allowed the shows to become more almost corporate less conversational less nerdy Like it was all about process and procedure and scripts and whatnot And it wasn't so much about like this this conversation with you the unscripted human moments And I allowed the unscripted human moments to Go away and because of that we never really saw the growth of tim dot the everyday astronaut Arguably nasa space flight does a really good job But I think a lot of their growth comes from access to Starship that you can't really get anywhere else specifically through bogey chica gal I mean if we're being honest, right like that stuff is incredible and Like that's where they really dug their teeth into youtube and then they Rightfully correctly created a weekly show which um, like I offered to help them Like I don't feel like I compete with any of these people We all work to do the same thing which is to get humanity excited about space And then I think the really great example of like someone really taking it and really being personable on camera Really understanding the market and really just doing a deep dive fantastic job is tim dot the everyday astronaut He absolutely destroys us From a content standpoint in a really positive a great way And like again, that's on me like I just didn't have the time to make that happen I still won't um But he does and he does such a great job And a lot of people point at tim dot and go like look at his incredible viewership You guys never had that viewership. You've been doing this for 10 years. Why don't you have a lot more viewership? You know, it's because I haven't had the time to be able to do it because um You know my day job takes a lot away from being able to do all of this and so then I wasn't able to maintain like What is necessary on the show to create a conversational tone and it had a negative impact on the show And it's still going to in the future like pretending like it's just going to magically go away is is not Not fair But at the same time like raw just space nerds and I do this because I love it And so if you don't enjoy the show, that's okay like I do it because I love it and Like if you like someone else better go watch them like I know I know what feelings for me anyhow Is it about Olivia asks is it about capacity tim dot does do this full time a little bit a little bit So and a little bit not so there's a special Something on camera that's really hard to pinpoint a special um Ability to interact with the camera that's very personable and social And makes it feel like you the viewer are listened to and you're engaged with and Your voice is heard and I have found Not a lot of people have that I believe tim dodd is far better than I am or anyone at tomorrow at that specific element When you watch a tim dodd stream You're excited for him and with him and he makes you excited and like How do I want to wear this you create his excitement and then he feeds off of your excited So it's this loop that he creates that's absolutely incredible um So yeah Stop it So it's definitely talent more than anything else, but in addition to talent you have to have time um Arguably anything anyone can do something that a talented or a gifted person can do it just takes them longer to get there right and so Tim is very talented in this. He's exceedingly smart. He knows his stuff He like gets it. He understands his community. He understands how to convey it in an exciting way And he has a deep deep understanding of the information and he's excited and he conveys all of that on camera Brilliantly and in a very social way He deserves every single thing every single incredible thing that has been happening. He's earned it Um, but he also has time and he took a big risk to do that, right? He left his day job to make this all happen And it paid off, but it may not have I have not left my day job Now to be fair Arguably my day job is more important than tomorrow elite And that's not to say that I don't appreciate everyone here, but like What i'm doing at company x is just bigger than this and um It just is so. Oh, yeah, hold up. So Uh Trajan I think I said that correct says there's room enough for both of you Look, there's room enough for far more than just the two of us. NASA space flight's another example Tim dot I'm hoping that more people come up because Each one of us brings a unique viewpoint a unique aspect to the live stream and um Yeah, there are going to be people who just are not okay with who I am and what the transition that I've gone through They don't want to hear about it. They would want to see it. They're not okay with it That's fine There are other people this is going to inspire them and they're going to come Partly because of this that's also fine It we all each serve the market in a different way. There's plenty of space for everyone That goes with the aerospace companies, too There's plenty of space for SpaceX. There's plenty of space for blue origin virgin galactic Rocket lab, you know pick them pick pick pick one Let's see here Um abby says, uh, I love what you do Uh for the SpaceX streams could we get some info on the workflow for the streams? Especially the impromptu starship ones Unfortunately, no I can tell you anything you ever wanted to know about the workflow here And how tomorrow's studios work and how we used to do live launch coverage Keep in mind a lot of what you see at company x Originated at space vidcast, which is the predecessor to tomorrow So if you want to see what the future of launches were you just need to look back at what I used to do 10 15 years ago, right? Is you can actually see what I did before working with SpaceX being pulled into SpaceX Morphed and tweaked into something new and different and you can see it evolving every time Just this year alone, um, I've updated this. Oh, did I just lose? Hold on I don't know where it went There we go Just this year alone We've deployed a new timeline that automatically scales We've deployed brand new audio at the launch pad. Well, actually it's not at the launch pad. That wouldn't work outside of the launch pad um For postal it always annoyed me that we didn't get really great rocket rumble sounds in the webcast, right? Like the rocket lifts off and if you ever there in person like you can hear the rocket for a good minute It's just rumbling and crackling and just like opening up the sky and I'm like, why can't we capture this? and you know part of it is Like you can do it if you're willing to drag infrastructure out every single time But the launch cadence is so crazy that like I just it was so inefficient We needed to find a way that we could have permanent infrastructure That wouldn't require humans to touch but still even in really windy days would pick up the large dynamic range Of the rocket launch from like for a minute Which meant we had like there was it was a moderately Minor challenge not a how it like it was a minor challenge, right? Not very difficult but like still a little bit of difficulty there and we deployed a new microphone system that um Like if you listen to this last launch, I think it's phenomenal Like you can really hear it and you can hear it for a while You can hear it for a while. That only applies to the cape right now. It doesn't fly anywhere else. Um, but like yeah Yeah, William says the last launch of starships was pretty good. Um, yeah, that's because it's a it's a new system So we deployed the new timeline. We deployed that we deployed the new telemetry system, right? And this is just in 2021 keep in mind we're barely Two months into 2021 and these are the updates we've done just this year and I've got more stuff on the way Actually, I worked over my birthday last week was my birthday and I worked the entire weekend day and night on updates That I cannot tell you about That you will see But it it was behind the scenes stuff that needed to be done just then because I had a break in launch And this was a pretty major behind the scenes Like core systems change that needed to be done um, so yeah I have a name so microphones are easier than drunken cameras. Yeah Yeah, I cannot tell you. Yeah Uh jttv if and when will starship get a commentator last starship flight sn9 had a commentator john insbrucker Uh, I did that I cheated that Like I didn't I didn't do a full deployment of that and you can tell I feel like john's audio is very shallow and tinny And so I need to fix that and then I overdrove the microphone the pad mics It was difficult because I run those alone I'm it I'm the only one that runs those from a technical standpoint. And so there's a lot for me to do And um, I didn't I didn't do it all correctly. So but they're tests, right? Yeah, anyhow um Mike says I think I understand the statement. Yeah, I don't think there's any way you can do with him I think it's what you can do what he does on a full-time basis He has no other job and my studio is much nicer. Um Yeah, so like just set that expectation that Tim dot is going to have the time to do remarkable things and do these deep five Like I cannot tell you how much time a one hour deep dive video takes Just in the research alone and then finding the media and building the thing Like I don't think people respect. Well, it may be a lot of you do but I don't think people respect Exactly how much time those things actually take to build. It's crazy There's no way I can do that. Um I do have the time to bring back live shows And I'm excited for the live show format because it's going to be a little bit different Um, it's going to be based on what kind of what we did for Yuri's night So we'll have some people here in studio And in a covet world just like one person but after coveted we might have two people So there'll be like two regular hosts and then two guest hosts every week and every week It's going to be effectively a round table And so those two regular hosts will be able to kind of like guide the conversation And I will be one of the regular hosts every week. I will be back on camera um, and then The other regular hosts like we might actually ironically rotate through other regular hosts But then we'll also have just two guest hosts that will be able to talk about whatever and it won't necessarily be an interview with the guest hosts But it will be like a fun interesting conversation about space Some of those guest hosts might be famous people that you know that run aerospace companies Some of them could be you from the community just because your voice is important too And so, uh, I think it's going to be a really fun and dynamic way to do a live show And I don't think we're going to limit them to one hour anymore. I think we're going to let the show just kind of Be the show we've got the news program. That's about 10 minutes We'll let the news program be about 10 minutes or so like 10 15 whatever it needs to be Um, and then the live show will just be what it needs to be I also would like to incorporate drinking I've always thought that our live shows should be a bunch of space nerds out Talking about geeking out over space over a beer. And so I'm literally going to be drinking while I don't like beer But like we're going to do it probably Friday nights and since it's nighttime, you know, let's bring in that soma bar Let's let's have alcohol. Let's have fun. Right Let's all drink together and then everyone can say what they're what they're drinking that night And then we can make it part of the show and part of the experience It doesn't need to be very polished arguably it shouldn't be I think I love the set that data built. I think this is incredible. This is the polish that we need We on the other hand, we could be drunken fools Yeah, it's gonna be great. Oh, yeah, it's gonna be so much fun And I want you guys to be drinking too if that's something you want to do if you don't want to drink alcohol That's cool too, but like have something fun to drink and then let us know what it is Oh, the other thing that I think would be really fun is like you all get to drink whatever you want to drink But then I don't get to the community decides what I'm going to drink And I don't know how to execute on that yet But like whatever it is you want me to drink and I know that you're all going to torture me, which is part of the fun Right. Um, I think that would be great. I think that would be great Uh, robert says I would also love for space news to be longer if it needs to be I think that'd be great I or I wouldn't complain. Um, yeah, you know, we kind of Again, it's a time thing, right? So everyone at tomorrow has a day job Jared has a day job I'm every Ryan as school. Uh, I had I definitely have a day job like I have a crazy day job every excuse me everyone has a day job and so We don't have a lot of time to be How do I want to say this the segments we are going to build like the two three minute segments We want to make sure our three minutes of dense Amazing information and I would prefer have a three minute show that is dense and amazing with information Than a 10 minute show that's filled with a bunch of fluff and crap. You know what I mean? So Like that's kind of the focus is making sure that it's not about length. It's about amazing content And the show will be however long it needs to be we target 10 minutes But if it needs to go for 25 minutes, then it goes for 25 minutes We target 10 minutes, but if it's only four minutes, then it's only four minutes That's how that goes that that's the rule for news that will be the rule for live shows too There's no length limit, right? It'll be we'll let the content dictate the length Mac Mac says way ahead of you makers on the rocks in the hot tub as we speak. Oh my god I would love a hot tub so much so so much Um Yeah, olivia exactly content is better than length. We let the content dictate the length Sometimes it goes long. Sometimes it doesn't and you'll notice that our new shows are all over the board with regards to time And our live shows were kind of all over and that was another mistake I made as I really tried to target one hour Because I was trying to figure it fit it inside the youtube algorithm and forget my language, but Fuck the youtube algorithm. I don't care anymore. Look if we get a million viewers awesome If we get 10 viewers awesome, it doesn't matter to me. You know what matters to me having fun and talking space That's what we're going to do and if other people don't like it fine That's fine. They don't have to like it. They can go watch tim dodd. They can go watch nasa space flight We are no longer the only entity out here. You have choices now Go somewhere else.  I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm going to have a little bit to drink I'm going to smile with you.  That's how this is going to be That's that's what I think Oh John that actually that's a fun idea make it eight to nine minutes. Just like a falcon nine launch That would be kind of fun to time the news with like up to seek a one right from lift off to seek a one What would also be fun? I don't know how to implement this but like Making the news kind of like each new segment is like I you know how you have the timeline at the bottom of the screen like covering the major events So as we're moving through news like the next news story becomes like that's max q and then the story after that is Miko and the story after that is s e s one which would Between miko and s e s one would be like a 10 second story, but whatever And you like I don't know. I don't know how that would actually work, but it sounds fun What is that powell I think it was powell. Uh, I can't pronounce your last name. No, powell. Powell I just joined no idea. What is about but I'm always up for a drink. Absolutely, right? Like we all we all work Well with coven maybe maybe not. Sorry, uh, but like we all have lives, right? We're all we're all space nerds at our at our core, right? That's why we're here to geek out over space and if that's the case then like Let's just have fun. Let's just have fun Dan says the rants are back. They never left. I I've I've always had my uh, what is it my um So box now just is is more glittery now than it was before Daniel Jackson asks what happened to this serial number nine engine camera feed? I don't know like I'm not I don't know even if I did know I couldn't talk about it, but um You saw what I saw right? Um, it went to air Lost the feed, but the rocket was still going and I'm like well, I don't want to show Nothing right that looks stupid. So I took it off the air then we're like, oh, we have it back I brought it back. You saw it freeze again just like I did and I'm like Nope, okay. I'm done. So Yeah, I then at that point I was just like what views can I show you that are amazing? And I just went to the best views that I thought I could find I really wanted to stage It was very very important to me that I got on a specific camera for landing which I did But it's not as easy as just like going to that camera because when you're doing live switching You don't want to go you don't want to do there are two things you really don't want to do First you don't want to cross the 180 what that means is Imagine a sports arena, right? It's a 360 360 degree sports arena When you're watching sports all of the cameras in the arena are on one side Pointing one direction and the reason for that is if they came from the other direction When they cut from this camera, you're running this way But when they cut to this camera on the screen, you're running the opposite direction on screen And it looks weird and so with aerospace I try not to cross the 180 either So when the rocket is going this way, we're going to have tracking cameras that show it going this way Because that's how this all works, right? Someone's making a lot of noise with their car And it's very annoying anyhow So part a I try not to cross the 180 and part b if you've got a Shot that's this big and it's in the middle of the screen You don't want to go to another shot that's like this that's about as big in the middle of the screen It looks funny. You need an intermediate shot So you need to go from like a large shot or you know This kind of shot to like maybe a smaller shot or a really close-up shot But you need to have a variance in between the two And so you want to make sure you don't do either of those things You want to make sure that you have a variance while also not crossing the 180 if possible So I needed to find a way to get off the camera I was on now but over to the landing camera Which unfortunately did both of those things across the 180 and it was Like the same tightness of shot and so it took a minute to like figure out how to get there, but I got there Actually, it wasn't me that figured out how to get there, which was really cool It was really nice actually to have a little bit of someone yell out like go to this camera And then you can go the other one. I'm like Actually, yeah, because I didn't see it in the moment. Uh, so Did that got to that landing camera Loved like it came down right it swooping in You see the engine light you see the other engine not light and I'm like we got to go wide Like I want to show you what happens because we all know what's going to happen And so I went really wide and I I um I went to the only really wide camera I had that would be able to see it It was a little bit too wide I think uh, but it's all I had And uh, I thought it was great. Uh, yeah, so not crossing that there are Okay, so this is a thing that I think sets Um company acts apart from everyone else There are so many little details and things like that like making sure that we don't cross the 180 Making sure that we don't cut from same to same shot Um, but then also like we're very particular about our color on our cameras on our live cameras And I have the ability to remote paint the color on every single camera almost every single camera and so Like and you can tell the ones that I can't because they don't look the same So there's this nice like almost cinematic quality to the SpaceX feeds it They just pop more than literally everyone else right um And that's because it's those little details That we look on every single launch and they're pain in the butt Because you got to do them every launch but those little details make all of the difference Crossing the 180. This is hilarious Crossing the 180 is a $200 fine The thing is like here now that you know that you can watch a webcast and you'll know If we don't have any options like there are times when you do not have a choice in aerospace You have to cross the 180 because you're losing your current tracking camera You have literally no other shots to go to except for one that's crossing the 180 So the rocket goes from here and all of a sudden it's pointing the other direction And we we all groan when we need to do it But sometimes you just have to and so now you know if you ever watch a webcast and that happens Collectively the entire control room was groaning when in that moment of like, uh Yep Let's see here Robert's asking Effectively how much I work with the starship team. Uh, is it just me working on or do I have any help? It's interesting So until recently I was the only video engineer company wide Now we did have other people that worked on video um, but nothing like in my particular role and They've added one other person to my team, which is very badly needed and then with regards to starship Um, I coordinate with those teams and I'm in constant communication with them. Um But they have kind of their own people that work on that stuff, which is good because I am drowning in other work Uh, but they're you know, they match infrastructure for the other stuff that we've done, you know company wide and Uh, or where it's necessary or where it makes sense. We don't match infrastructure We do something new and better, right because it's starship. It should be new and better It should everything should be better on starship, right? It's it's next gen. It's that's how it needs to be And so, you know, that's kind of the approach that we take is it's all next gen Um, let's see here Yeah, always I'm the one always bash for extreme attention to detail feels good to be one like minded people. Yeah These these details matter. Uh, there are reasons And I can't really go into them, but there are reasons behind most every decision now sometimes in the moment in the moment, right like you're doing live stuff and you You have to make split second decisions that are very complicated sometimes and you don't always make the right decision But you kind of have to commit to it, right? Otherwise, it looks like a mistake. So long as it doesn't look like a mistake. You're good um Yeah, so there's that but like I think that's what makes spacex webcasts stand out from literally everyone else's is that attention to detail and little things like split second decision timing elements on the graphics like When things happen in the graphics, which seems subtle and like no-brainer There's a lot of time that went into how does it feel when we do it this way? How does it feel when we do it this way? How does it feel when we do it this way? We're talking like tenths of a second changes to like when the telemetry comes on when the telemetry telemetry comes back off Um, when we were looking at like the last launch Um, we didn't have all of the data So the telemetry kind of came on in the right time, but it didn't go back off at the right time And so you're going to see those numbers played with Over the next few launches until we really feel like that's honed in and the approximate time after I suppose it'd be after seco one But it's kind of it's a little bit weird because it's like not only after seco one is also after landing like When do these things need because you don't want the graphics to take away from landing? So like what makes sense and you you have to really think about all of these things Uh, how long until you get a prime time emmy for a technical direction camera work at company x? I have multiple emmies. Thank you very much Uh, one of them for um the work at company x. I think that was dm one um Is what that that was for best Best interactive program, I believe Yeah, oh, yeah, robert. I totally agree. Um, and I can't stress this enough The attention to the little bits matter is part of what has made the world interested in space and rocket again But it's more than that. It has to be it has to look cool. It can't look like Shitty blocky text on the screen, right? You don't want to have like a horrible ticker at the bottom of the screen That feels like cnn from 1980. You don't want to have like big blocky things. Everything needs to be Everything it needs to feel like the future. It needs to feel like an optimistic Amazing future that you want to be a part of That's what it needs to feel like but not just the graphics the entire broadcast needs to feel that way In my opinion Cosmic person please no tickers. I know I know they make me angry Dan says I can't remember what that one award was for. There's just so many No, that's that I literally I couldn't remember like That the emmy's have like many many categories and I couldn't remember the category that we had won So it wasn't like I have too many awards that I legitimately couldn't remember the category Like yeah Owen Sparks says I'm a freshman undecided major in college right now. What should I do so that I could do what you do? Well, don't do what I do. I'm doing it Electrical engineering is a good field if you want to kind of do what I'm doing Otherwise if you want it so You know, I'm an engineer first. I also do the production side As needed, but usually there's a crew that brought in for that. Ultimately. I'm the engineer So I just move the photons around the universe.  What type of school or degree you had they care only about how good you are producing whatever it is you're going to produce and they care about your history of programs and resume and Show real more than anything else. That's what matters to them if you want to do the production side But you want to do the engineering side definitely stay in school Um, and that's I think some advice that not everyone is told We're always told stains like you got to be in school to be successful and arguably that is not true Um, it it does not hurt right like school is a great thing that When you complete school it shows someone on a resume that you're able to complete Long programs and you know do the hard work At the same time some fields just don't require it and it's it's not super useful So just know what you want to do and figure out if school is going to help you Or if it's just going to put you laden with debt and hurt you over time and not help you anyhow Well great no BS answer. Yeah, I mean like I'm a pretty straight shooter. I feel like I just tell you the way it is I think has tomorrow ever had a person of color on the team. Yeah, absolutely So we had jade jade was on For quite a while We also had um I can't remember her name. It's so terrible. She wasn't on for very long. Um Oh, it will come to me. I'm so terrible with names. I'm a horrible human being Um I can't remember. Oh, I'm embarrassed. I can't remember But yes, absolutely. We've had people of color and I'm not talking as guests. I mean as actual hosts Helping to run the show. Obviously. We've had plenty of guests Yeah Exactly, I don't have time for BS. Oops Uh t-tone asks is there anyone else in the studio with me tonight? Uh, no, no, there's not so, um Yeah, actually I had other plans for the night. Uh, they unfortunately fell through I was a little bit sad Um, so like I was like, okay. Well, I don't have anything to do right now I don't really like I've been cooped up at home. I don't like being cooped up at home I like doing things right I can't I can't not do things I have to do something And so I was like, oh, you know, I haven't been to the studio for a while I know that Jared's doing some stuff I want to make sure that everything's working for everyone And so, you know run system updates because I know that mac is always going to want an update windows wants an update It wouldn't do a little bit less but like make sure that these systems are all working correctly and um Yeah Uh Eve or eve or I don't know how to say your name. I'm sorry. It's 5 20 a.m. There and bed is calling I hopefully you get to see me say goodbye to you, but goodbye. Have a great night. I hope I hope you had a fun time Yeah, Carlos exactly After 10 years of working in the tv and film industry. I've yet to be asked where I went to film school Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all. They truly don't care. Your sizzle reel is everything Like can you impress people with your visuals because ultimately that's what you have to do And so but if you're going to be an engineer Right, if you're going to move photons around the universe a little bit different Now interestingly enough at a company like SpaceX arguably school still doesn't matter SpaceX cares that you're great They want you to be The best in the world And they don't really care if you went to school or not. They care if you're the best in the world So they don't it depends on the position in the people who are hiring obviously, but generally speaking You just have to be really really phenomenally great at what you do and you'll fit in great at SpaceX You also have to have a tremendous work ethic um Yeah Yeah Matty says are you or any of the crew getting an opportunity to get vaccines? Yeah, so I believe with my current role. I'm in category one bravo Which we're not up to yet. We're still in one alpha for vaccine deployment Once we hit one bravo. I should be eligible for vaccines and and I'll be good at the same time due to my role I have um covid tests not quite weekly, but uh, it's like once every two weeks or so And then I've also done every It's not exactly regular, but I would say it averages out to about once every month or so not quite maybe it's once every two months Let's see here be Yeah, it's closer to once every two months. Um, anybody tests as well So I'm constantly tested for covid just to make sure because I am in Situations where I'm around other people and you know, we got to wear masks Like social distancing got to wear masks. There are barriers. There's constant sanitization of everything Doors are left open like a whole a whole line But at the same time like we don't want people to get sick. So, um, yep constantly tested So I feel safe. I feel fine. Um, but right now I don't know like tomorrow doesn't have the resources to do that So like we I keep other people kind of away And just like munch you. Thank you. Dan. Oh my god Oh, I feel so guilty Thank you so much. Yep. So she was with tomorrow for a short time as well So, yeah, I Abby asked, do I play Kerbal space program a little bit? Um, it really comes down to a time problem So I don't do a lot of gaming just because I simply don't have a lot of time for it and You know, the day job takes a lot and then when I'm done with that Um, rather than play games what I would normally do is I go to disneyland as a way to escape Right a game games are really a great way to like leave reality for a moment and just escape into a fantasy world And I do the same thing. I just don't do it with games I go to disneyland instead and I get to leave reality and I and I get but I but I do it with a 3d immersive environment and um, I really enjoy that it really helps because when you when you have a stressful job You need a moment to just like not And that's my moment to just not unfortunately disneyland is closed and I understand why But it has been a little more difficult for me because like I don't have that place to decompress So, yeah And this is the other thing ksp uniquely takes 12 hours per sitting. You're not wrong. Like it takes forever A dave says, um Love what you do. Whoopsies Love what you do. I'm amazed at your tomorrow studio and missing seeing you all. Well, thank you so much You know, again, dada made the studio Um, he did a phenomenal job. Like this is made out of wood. Can you believe that? This is wood. How crazy is that? He has a brilliant quote that I love. I don't remember the exact but it's The general gist of it is, um, we are exceeding the tolerances of wood When talking about the level of detail that he was trying to get in here Yeah Um, wayland wing says so disney. Were you a disneyed pass holder and how do you feel about that program ending and changing? I am more than a disneyed pass holder. I'm a club 33 member on both coasts. So both disneyland and well disney world I have club 33 membership and as a club 33 member I still have access to disneyland So I am not impacted by the pass closure now. I won't have the annual pass, but I can still get in anytime I want when they open they're obviously not open. So I can't I can't get in. Oh, yes Yeah, everyone's yep. Mm-hmm. You're all breaking wood Wood wow, that's wood. Yep. Uh-huh Yep Not just wood but mdf. Yes, and the joke is that this studio has mdf permanently embedded in the walls and so you can never lie to imagine here or the whole studio will go up There is so much mdf does there are like we will When we were updating the outlets for all of the cameras and pulling new cable for it We pulled out the old ones and there was just this layer of mdf dust inside The junction box. I was like, oh my god Oh my god Two live 9x what is your strategy for finding guests for your show without having people look past you because they don't know you Uh, so oh actually we had lisa stojinovsky For a long time working on that and the great thing that she would do is she had no fear She would just go out and ask people to be on the show And she's like look we're tomorrow. We've been around forever. We're doing really cool things You know, we've got 50 000 plus subscribers on youtube It's gonna be a fun thing and we're going to we're here to get people excited about space And generally people generally speaking with the exception of blue origin people People really respond to that now blue origin on the other hand says cool cool cool cool cool go away So we've never gotten anywhere with anyone at blue origin. We got close ones I'm like hang on. Let me get you like I have to run this past the pr team So and as soon as they did that it was like nope f off like okay I'm over simplifying but like yeah, I've just come to I realized we will never have anyone from blue origin on the show which makes me sad because I am excited for what they're doing but That's just not who they are. That's not how they work. That's not how they function Which is maybe why they're so far behind everyone else. I'll just say it that way grumble grumble. I'm grumpy Yep, uh, let's see here Um, benlev3 says can I ask what you think about nuclear saltwater rockets? Do you think they are too risky? Uh, I don't have enough information like I I don't think I can speak intelligently on that To come to any conclusions, although I am not afraid of the word nuclear I think nuclear done safely is just fine And I think that nuclear propulsion in space will be required if we really truly want to open up the cosmos above and beyond just like Mars and kind of our our local system um What that looks like I don't know But and and maybe it is risky again. I just don't have the information, but it doesn't scare me Um, I don't just look at that and go. Oh, no, we can't scary scary scary It's like no, no, there's signs and data there. Show me the signs and data and if I were to read up on it more I could give you a better opinion, but at this time. I just don't have one Uh sea dragon. I assume you're asking if I like sea dragon. Um hit the button. There we go I think sea dragon is amazing. I would love to see sea dragon. I think it's like it's effectively this crazy enormous pressure-fed rocket Launched from like you don't even have a launch platform the the ocean is the launch platform How nuts is that and I believe it was actually as I understand it it was designed to be quasi reusable. Also I I learned I believe this to be true. So was the Saturn five They were like starting to work on recut like how they thought they could recover the first stage of a Saturn five That might be wrong But I believe it to be true like someone can correct me if I'm full of bs, but like I'm pretty sure that was correct. Like obviously they never did it, but like yeah Oh Maybe blue origin will change with Jeff Bezos focusing more on it. You know, I really hope so. Um Like I've said too many snarky things about blue origin I think at this point to ever have them come on air But hopefully they'll go on air with someone like tim died or nasa spaceflight or someone I really feel like they're what they're doing is incredible and I I actually am full bore in favor of their vision of Getting thousands of people working in cist lunar space. I think that's brilliant. I think that's exactly what we need to do I think it's very inspiring I actually think the moon in the short term is more important than mars This is my personal opinion is more important than mars and here's why and this was actually this i'm regurgitating carry on at this point When you look up at night You can very easily and clearly see where the moon is and you can if there was someone living on imagine for a moment Just project with me for a moment A future where there are humans living and working on the moon and you walk outside and you look up at the moon Imagine that emotional connection You'll have when you're looking at the moon and you realize there are humans there living there looking back at you maybe How Awesome is that It will be a profound moment for humanity. I think Now do the same thing with mars The problem you'll find is that a majority of humans cannot locate mars in the night sky Right you can locate the moon very easily everyone can locate the moon assuming that's visible But can you locate mars now your astronomers? Obviously you can do like you can do it But you're kind of the minority here and so that same connection that that like Emotional draw doesn't exist. That's not to say that mars is not important mars is absolutely important We absolutely need to do mars arguably both at the same time But I think in the short term for getting humanity inspired That's the moon. That's not mars What else we got? Oh, yeah, yeah, if you guys are interested in c-dragon, we brought vax on I think vax do you remember was that tomorrow or was it uh space big cast days? It's one of the two. Um I looked different. Um Yeah, what we brought him on I was slightly more bearded at the time Uh, I'm turning red And uh, I I was one of my favorite all-time episodes because I didn't know anything about it at the time And he's just going on about this absolutely incredible project and breaking my brain talking about it I loved that one. I I absolutely loved and adored that one Olivia the these are some of my favorite moments I remember tim dob tweeting during demo one about how you overheard news agency folks that were there snubbing him because He's just some youtuber. Uh, we had something similar happen. So we kind of got our start um By covering the space shuttle right the the final Launches well, we started before the final launches, but like we we covered like sts I think it was like 119 forward. So like from 119 to 135 or something like that um And we eventually made it out to the launch site. So we went to kennedy space center and we would cover The space shuttle launches live And it was just karyanne and I like two kids effectively in their basement. We weren't but like There's the analogy two kids in their basement streaming not even on youtube youtube didn't do live streaming at the time we were on you stream at the time and um Using flash of all things because that's that's all that's all you could really do And what was really amazing to me was for a little bit there Not at the very end, but like kind of in the late 120s. So like 128 129 130 131 sort of time frame um sts 131 like 128 129 Or might have been sts 125 somewhere in there We suddenly became the largest Entity at the press site. We were larger than cnn and msnbc Combined i'm sorry. We were the second largest entity at the press site We were larger than cnn and msnbc combined for their entire viewership Right yet. They all just kind of mocked us like the press site even the kennedy space center didn't really want anything to do with us They only allowed us there because they were forced to by hq And they would relegate us out to like the social tent be like go with them You don't get the cool spots by the cool kids and we're like, okay Like we want this to be the social event like this is about humans This isn't about like it's kind of about the shuttle But this is about the human interaction. That's what this is really about and so Same thing like they mocked us and i'm like, but i'm so much I have more viewers than you than your entire network program. I have more viewers than you The only entity that was larger than us every time I was fox news We never beat fox news and that always killed me inside. I would never been able to beat them Now, uh, that's not true. I've never been able to beat them at tomorrow I have beaten them in aerospace. Uh, just not at tomorrow Hmm Um, that's gave us the episode number. It's eight dot one four And if that's the number you see so that season eight episode 14 and that would have been tomorrow at that point Oh, oops. Uh, william says, uh, agreed that getting inspired is so important. Glad to hear biden team supporting Artemis Yeah, I haven't really been paying too much attention because I've been kind of heads down working on some of these updates and whatnot But hopefully yeah, we have a continued, uh, epic presence in space. I don't see why we wouldn't um Andreas what do you think about the impact of mega constellations in astronomy? Should they be banned or at least limited? No and no Um, what should happen in my so it doesn't matter at the end of the day These mega constellations are happening whether we want them to or not It doesn't have to be one company or another china is going to do it Russia might do it like you're going to have these mega constellations Um, and you can't stop everyone So what you should do instead and what where the astronomers are really screwing this up in my humble opinion Is they should be working with the mega constellations to make sure that they have systems in place To allow them to still see the night sky without screwing everything up because there are techniques a way to minute ways to mitigate that um, and they can Like give advice and give feedback and help out as opposed to screaming from the rooftop You have to stop everything stop everything. You're ruining the sky um Like internet has become So valuable in Humanity that we can't just pretend like People can live without it. Well those the words are too strong The internet can create um An environment that is far greater than An environment in which it doesn't exist meaning Your opportunity increases greatly greatly your happiness in life increases greatly If you have access to internet high speed internet specifically And being able to provide that to everyone on the planet is very important and There are ways to mitigate And That's all i'll say about that. Obviously all my personal opinion. Uh, let's see here He'll please tell me you have some vodka without arms of reach. Um Not within armors of reach, but Hang on Let me see Because we do have a refrigerator. We had some rocket vodka here whoo Water oh those are probably no good anymore There's literally nothing in the refrigerator Uh, there's some Oh this room is a mess How are those fish still alive? I had they must be feeding there must be zombie fish Okay, it's not there Now you can hear the uh Nope, it's not in there. Okay Apparently we no longer have vodka here, but you know again when I bring back the live shows for realsies Absolutely rocket. Uh, excuse me vodka is kind of my um It's my um Spirit of choice, but I also like a good scotch or whiskey Uh, daniel asks is this the first time back? I'm not sure since when it's certainly the first time back since a few surgeries um How are these fish still alive is the best quote of 2021. Well, thank you I feel like there were some good comments back here James says, uh, benjamin is now jamie same watch. It's an apple watch Everyone has an apple watch. Yes. Actually, that's where my name comes from. So, um Started transition april of 2019 I when we were trying to Determine like a feminization of a name.  I'm like What do you mean? Don't do the e. She's like, uh, I don't like it with the e. It's too masculine with the e I'm like, well, I'm not sure I like it without the e. We whom did not We weren't sure if it was going to be jamey. We're also looking at things like luna and I'm like, no That's too that's a little too like on point. You know, um, it doesn't quite feel right Um And then she said, oh my god. I can't believe I didn't see this She says look at your name and she look at benjamin.  I love that it was right there In front of us the entire time. I absolutely love that and so as soon as I saw that I was like, yep, that's it and I've cursed cursed myself to a life of jami That's starbucks. Is there a jami jam jami Uh, thanks Uh, jaden says your voice is so soothing f y. I'm about to go to bed and this is perfect. Thank you very much I don't like my voice yet. Um, and if you go back and just listen to this episode like It's kind of feminine, but it's also still wrong It there are moments that aren't right That it certain words aren't quite right. It just It's just not right. So I'm still working on it, but I'm I'm comfortable enough to be on camera. I think Here's a great question taking into account their scientific value versus costs, which you could focus on cubesats or big project missions Oh cubesats. I think I think you can do phenomenal things with cubesats now these teeny tiny little like 1u2u3u4u cubesats They can do a lot of what these really large satellites used to be able to do And if they can't then launch a kajillion of them And then you might be able to do more than what some of these really large satellites could do I I I'm curious if there's a way To effectively rebuild so to speak James Webb space telescope, but using only cubesats and like Have like an array of these cubesats Really spread out far larger than jdubst is Combining their elements in in kind of like, you know how in radio telescopes you can You know the the more elements you have the further spread out effectively the larger your antenna ends up being I realize that that's not quite how that works with optics, but like do that I oversimplified it a little bit, but something like that and maybe it wouldn't work, but like that would be cool. Wouldn't that be cool? Yeah, radio telescope in space would be really good. Vax says my voice is fine. It's better when I'm not thinking about it That's fair. Like it goes back and forth. Um, I need to eify more. Um, yeah anyhow Yeah, in fact, it's kind of how it's just it's not the same as like radio telescopes, right? It's That kind of works, but it kind of doesn't so I don't even know that it would work in a cubesat But wouldn't it be cool and think about how much easier that would potentially be from a deployment standpoint And here's the best part. Let's just say some of them fail. Let's say they have a Hubble moment where it's like, uh, oh It's out of focus Just launch some more Right Just like they're cubesats Yeah Um, Max says, wait, wait, wait, you go to starbucks instead of karyans coffee. No, I get karyans coffee too. Absolutely Yeah, well, I I get like I I go to starbucks. I go to tiramia earlier tonight. I went to A place in anaheim. It is I've never been there before it is called oopsies Requiem coffee tea and fantasy It was fun They're gonna be far more fun when it's not in covet and they can actually be open. Hang on karyan texted me That's where I was going to go meet some people, but they all backed out. It wasn't great They all it was just one Michael does bring up a good point. No one likes their voice. That's not an exclusive. Yeah, that's fair Oh, yeah, us too. So back says I've been drinking death wish coffee since we had them on the show I think definitely they have really good coffee too. I really like coffee. I I do I think my problem with starbucks is they're kind of their coffee is very boring. There's not a lot to it Um It's not bad. I like I always know what I'm going to get. I don't like really like sugary drinks So if I'm going to order a starbucks drink, it'll probably be Just a cold brew with nothing in it. Just straight up cold brew um I'm not actually a huge fan of most of the spacex coffee There is one that I really like it through medium roast and if anyone here's ever in spacex and wants to get a coffee My personal favorite is las mojarras. Not because of the name. I legitimately like the taste And again, it's a medium roast. So it's got you know, the more you roast your coffee, the less caffeine it has So a medium roast has kind of like a medium amount of coffee or excuse me caffeine Which is nice because I I need the caffeine sometimes But it's fun like it's playful. It's a playful coffee on your palate. It has texture not texture It has character to it, which like the dark roast doesn't it's just like it's Dirty it it's very earthy and it's like not great and their light roast is very acidicy Um, now I usually prefer a light roast because I like the cap. I want the caffeine, right? So I want the lighter roast. I get the lighter. So I get the additional caffeine. I just can't stand Spacex's light roast. I just really can't uh, does spacex give free coffee? Yeah, absolutely Tomorrow should do coffee ads, you know for those who don't know Tomorrow started as spacevid. Oh, that was someone asked a question spacevid cast So tomorrow tmro actually started a spacevid cast back in minnesota with carianne and myself And that's where we were doing space shuttle launch coverage So if you want to see the launch coverage, just go to youtube.com slash spacevid cast And you'll be able to see kind of like What we were doing and actually jack's got there before I did because I went out of tangent But um, we did the show in the back of a coffee shop and because of that we had our own Blend of black called blastoff blend and you could buy spacevid cast blastoff blend by crow river coffee And it was adam yokum who ran we would call he was his nickname was caffeinated cf and 8 ed right clever clever play Um, and he he was the technical director for the show. So uh, carianne out and I would be on camera Adam would be behind us. We had the whole control room kind of behind us. It looked a little bit more like our Uh control room shot, which I can show you guys if you guys are just showing up And uh, yeah, it was great coffee as vac says and um Yeah, he did a he just it was it was awesome And it was a really great kind of synergistic thing because he was really passionate about space and loved doing live production Um, and he was really passionate about coffee. We loved coffee carianne helped out at the coffee shop from time to time to kind of pay rent so to speak and um Yeah, it was really great We that I didn't got hired at spacex and so I needed to move to california and I moved the show with me unfortunately, um adam passed away Um unexpectedly in his sleep a couple years ago now And that's why we call that planet behind me planet calf. It's actually in honor of adam We want to get like a caffeine constellation like a little constellation in the um In the what am I trying to say the symbol of caffeine? and um, yeah I miss him. He was he was good daniel says bring back space mic. Uh, space mic is a great guy like, um He's a good person. I have to look at the show as a whole though and there were some things that we couldn't get around and I'm not going to say anything bad about him. I wish him the best. Um, but that won't be something we'll be doing hopefully like He's got a lot going on in his life and it's not great and I hope Things get better for him because he really does deserve Happiness and greatness. I think he's an incredibly passionate individual. I think he's incredibly smart um But unfortunately, that's just not something that will happen And I and I don't want to go into details because I don't think that's fair to anyone, but It's just not going to happen Heat shield says I love the idea of a caffeine constellation Yeah, uh, terence. Uh, here's good things about mike. He got him a job down there and says he's doing well you know, um, I have zero doubt that He will just kill it at whatever he does He is a very hard-working very passionate individual. He is good people So like again, I have nothing bad to say about like nothing at all Um, and I just I cannot go and will not go into detail But it won't happen and I will continually repeat this line anytime someone asks. I'm not trying to cover anything up I'm just trying to be respectful of all parties involved And like it's just it's just not going to happen This place mike must have been hired at blue origin Well, if he was then we wouldn't be we wouldn't hear about it when I would we You're funny Daniel, I agree. He was he wasn't just a big part of the show. Um He brought a level of detail and insight that no one has been able to bring since right Like he saw things in a unique way and connected dots that not everyone was able to connect And it was really awesome What he was able to do and that's why I have no doubt because that isn't just something that he does in aerospace That's just something he's able to do and so I have absolutely no doubt none whatsoever that he will be wildly successful at whatever he does And I am sad. I am very sad that he's not here like I really do wish I could bring him back make Well, that That's a bit of a personal question. Yes, I am So it is there are two surgeries left.  So all of this this wasn't too bad. This was awful like this section Body sculpting That is intense. I had no idea. Oh my gosh. So yeah, I did body sculpting. Got some hips, which are nice I've got hair surgery coming in that will kind of fill in some of these gaps here because I still have like Hairline goes back a little bit too far Um, I think they did pretty good on the on the face too, right? They really like I think they did a really good job Feminizing like nice nose like it came together Um, and then yeah, uh, then the final surgery will be later this year.  Yeah And that's why I'm going to be off again for several months and even after that I won't be able to sit for this long For a while like half a year potentially So I might like when we come back we might have standing desks But you know it's you know, I've known this for 25 years and I didn't do anything about it and so I'm I'm just I'm happy that I live in a time where I can do something about it I'm very happy with this with this with the results so far. I'm so much more comfortable with myself so much more comfortable like I can't even begin to describe it. It's it's it's So much better. Um, and so I I am hopeful that the shows will be Better because of it because if I'm more comfortable with me that will come across on camera and I'll be able to be more comfortable with you and um I think it's going to be great But I need a little bit more time just legitimately. I need I need to get through this face surgery Or not the hair surgery and that's going to be a gross bloody mess for a little bit Um, I I don't need to wait for it to all to grow out You're actually going to be able to watch it grow out effectively on air Like it's going to get a little bit longer and super awkward for a while. That's fine. I don't mind being awkward on camera um There was a little bit where like I was just going from surgery to surgery to surgery and I just couldn't you know Um, or where like my voice was just dipping in and out and it was just it was wrong And so I needed to take a break But I'm nearly done. I'm nearly done with the break Needed just a little bit longer. I was hope I was hoping I would be able to come back January of this year That's not obviously didn't happen But it's not too much longer now. We are coming back Michael says your happiness makes me happy. Thank you. I I cannot describe to you how happy I am Everything is so much better It's so much better Let's hear Owen says one of my favorite spacex webcast moments was a landing at kennedy space center and blue origins launch tower It was in the background was that you were doing I mean it would to be honest it would if that happened that would not have been intentional Although it's hilarious. Uh, but yeah, that's not that that would never be an intentional thing In fact quite the opposite. Uh, we intentionally tried to like not do that Um to like have clear shots But as I was talking sometimes you get these tracking cameras And you're coming at them from different angles and you don't want to cross the 180 So you end up getting stuck on a camera There might be a view that's slightly better, but you you'd have to cross the 180 So you stick on the slightly lesser view so you don't create a moment And so that would also dictate like what's coming back down Uh What's coming back down and like the angle of attack on the on the vehicle Uh, your structure 1701. Great to see you again. Great to see you too I was just saying like this is like we're coming back to probably be Fridays and not Saturdays But not just yet. I've got one more surgery coming up to February 16th Then I need a little bit of time to not be a bloody mess because it's going to be gross for a little while And then I will come potentially come back. I'm still trying to decide if I come back Until like September October where I do my gender confirmation surgery and then I need to be out for several months So be like back for a short bit and then gone for You know six months again. I feel like that might be harmful Um Or if I just wait until the end or if we do something kind of hybrid, I don't know yet I don't know yet, but I am much more comfortable now much more able to go on camera Maintain voice like if you just go back to the last time I was on camera with my AMA I couldn't maintain the whole time. I've been able to maintain this entire time. This is effectively my speaking voice now This is my natural voice at this point. Um, it's not really perfect, but it's getting there Uh, way wayland wings. What do you mean by creating a switching camera angles and crossing the 180? Okay, so uh, you know, I We I did cover this a little while ago The short version is if you're looking at a sports arena, right at 360 degree sports arena All the cameras point in one direction and the reason for that is If you've got someone running from this side of the arena the other and you've got a camera pointing this way You shoot them on this camera. They're moving in this direction But if you suddenly cut to a camera on the opposite side of the arena They're going to appear to be running the opposite direction Because you've crossed over the 180 degree angle and now they look like they're going the other way We have similar issues in rocketry, right? You'll actually notice on the webcasts Most of the cameras are positioned on one side of the rocket And they don't really cross the 180 so to speak. So if you think of the launch pad like an arena Most of the cameras now they do kind of dip Some of we cheat we go to like 190 degrees sometimes, but usually with the rare exception they don't cross the 180 There are a handful of exceptions Launch complex 39 the fixed service structure You don't have really you really don't have a choice and you have to cross the 180 in order to get the dragon shots And you literally are going to the exact opposite side of the vehicle in order to do it But it's okay because you kind of have a different perspective on that and so you don't lose Unlike in a sporting arena. You don't really lose your train of like where you're at you can still kind of tell so when the rocket launches And you're And you're shooting the cameras this way all of a sudden The angle of attack gets more severe And so one camera could show the rocket this direction Well another camera because of the angle that it's hitting it could show the rocket like pointing down almost Or another one could show it going effectively the opposite direction Which is effectively crossing the 180 and we try not to do that We try not to go from a shot where the rocket looks like it's going this way and all of a sudden it looks like it's going this way We also try not to get shot because the earth is round, right? So you go you go like this So then eventually you're looking at the rocket and it looks like it's going down We don't like that shot either So we try not to show shots where it looks like the rocket's going Because it's you know going with the curvature of the earth, right? So it looks like it's doing this but it's actually going around the planet, right? So those are all things that we think about Sometimes we don't have a choice We just don't have a choice But now you know that that thought was made in advance prior to going to that camera and you'll know oh They must not have had a choice Yeah, uh destruct yourself and you know one bring up a good point breaking the 180 also messes up your spatial awareness In narrative dramas directors will negotiate the way around The action of characters to move the audience's awareness Which is a very good point when you're watching a movie or a sitcom or well not a sitcom But when you're watching some sort of drama sequence, you won't see them generally Sliding the camera back and forth What they'll do is they'll move the camera around the scene to get you where you need to be Or they'll do direct cuts with the other person's back of the head So you all when you cross that 180 so you always have a mental awareness of where you are But if you don't do that, um, they're going to give you some other intermediate shot to not do that That makes sense Joe says who operates the spacex tracking cameras robots Robots do Abby says earth is round. That's debatable. Yeah, my joke. I constantly joke in the control room Especially when we bring in a new crew Because you know we're talking about how the graphics system work and like all the different computers needed to drive everything for the webcast Because it's a lot And you don't think about it, right? You're like, oh that seems pretty easy, but it's like It's a rack full of computers driving everything Um And so I joke I go, yeah most of the computers go towards Making the flat earth look round And the the problem is when the rocket launches and we hit the dome We then have to continue the footage and make it look like we made it through the dome They all look at me like i'm crazy I love doing that to them so much Oh Wayland says thanks so much for the explanation never thought so much or never realized that so much thought went into Oh, yeah, absolutely. And as I kind of mentioned this to the group earlier, but like it's not just crossing the 180 but like The colors in the scene making sure that the blues in the sky match and coordinate Making sure that the greens of the grass all matches and coordinates making sure there's enough color in the scene and then like Painting the image and shading the image of every live camera to make sure that you got this really great dynamic range So the rocket is kind of popping and and is kind of front and center But you can still see the other stuff behind there And I think the best way to describe this is this is little details that you may not have noticed before but When you watch a SpaceX launch It doesn't gonna sound crazy, but you can see the sky Right, you can literally see even if it's a clear day You will see the blue sky and it will look blue and if there are clouds you will see the clouds If you watch someone else's launch, you may or may not be able to see the sky It might just be this gray goo In the background and it's just a very flat image We spend a lot of time making sure that you can see the sky It's not even the rocket Not even the rocket We make sure you can see the sky because it makes it look more cinematic It makes it look more exciting and interestingly enough and makes it look more real All right, Daniel asks if I interact with Elon much? Nope interesting fact So Elon met Benjamin, which is me as male But he's never met Jamie. He met Benjamin about once a year every year since I started so he met me for about eight seven or eight times And then has never met Jamie. So for the last two years, we've never had an opportunity to meet I have little doubt that that will change soon And that's going to be really awkward Or not, he won't care. He won't care. He'll be like cool Do great things. That's all he cares about He'll tell me how I'm failing humanity Oh, yes, uh, kenji says it's also the music, you know, it's the music that makes you excited for launch. Absolutely Absolutely There's a lot like Subtractives does are not subject that a test shot starfish does an amazing job Of all of the orbital music that we have and I think it sets the tone And there's actually like debate before the webcast as to what songs will be chosen and how like what music will be used in that particular and then The really fun thing is we get exclusive first access to a lot of the songs and we like won't even tell you That's what we're doing. So we'll pre-release music even before it's done being mixed Wesley there's a sky Bad daddy did he pay for your bottom surgery? Well, I have not had bottom surgery Uh, and no, I'm unfortunately paying for everything out of pocket Sadly insurance is fairly useless. I have literally paid for everything out of pocket face surgery was a hundred percent out of pocket Electrolysis hundred percent out of pocket Press augmentation body sculpting hundred percent out of pocket Submitted claims for well, I didn't do the I didn't even do the face surgery because I knew it wasn't going to do I just knew it wasn't covered But submitted claims or everything else because it was supposed to be in network They denied every single claim bottom denied them all I just gave up like they win they win Sure, the blue shield of california is terrible And I feel I I mostly expect I'll have to pay for bottom surgery out of pocket as well Oh, that's a little bit harder for them to make that claim like Um, they will have a very hard time not covering bottom surgery Is this music orbity enough like it matters it matters because like sometimes it depends on the time of the launch And it kind of depends on like the general mood and like what the ambient noise sounds like Oh my god dealing with ambient noise is a pain Michael, um, I think Gwen Shotwell. So for those who don't know Gwen Shotwell is the president of SpaceX I think in my opinion, she is the secret sauce that makes SpaceX go You know, everyone gives their attention to elan But Gwen is the magic like She's incredible Hands down The best president I've ever worked for Bar none male female irrelevant. She's just Freakishly good at what she does And like you have to imagine how hard her job is I I can't I can't It Gwen. Yes. Yes. Kiva says Gwen is the real MVP. Absolutely The structure 70 no one bottom surgery. Yeah, I mean I'm trying to use nice words here Um, yeah, so the next surgery is uh hair transplants.  They try to get about 3 000 follicles And then there's a little bit of balding on my crown So there's not a lot but they're going to go in and fill in a little bit there And then they're going to fill in kind of this area here They're like Like this area goes back a little bit far. So they're going to pull it forward They're going to give me a little bit of a widow's peaks that I have kind of a heart shape with my with my hair So and that is literally a bloody mess like they when they put it all back in like everything's gross And it's kind of it's the one surgery where like you don't have instant results, right? Like face pretty instant. You could tell right away Definitely instant like could tell right away. There was no like I wonder it was like oh those are new This one is they move all of the hair And then all of the hair falls out That they just moved so it all falls out And then it starts growing again But it starts growing at the rate that normal hair grows at so it's going to take a couple years to get it to this length Now it's not a couple years to get it to a usable length. It's probably Uh year and a half actually. It's probably a good year and a half. So It's going to take a while, but it's fine. I'll be on camera before then And then yeah bottom surgery that's Uh, yeah So bad daddy, so I just puked in my mouth a little.  It effectively overheats the hair I don't actually consider thermolysis electrolysis because electrolysis is a legitimate thing that doesn't occur with thermolysis Thermolysis overheats the hair the heat damages the the base of the hair to the point that it cannot grow back You might say to yourself. Well, how's that different than laser? Great question So the next version is called galvanic Galvanic uses direct current. So you got like a thing on your back and then they put the needle in but they need to leave So with thermolysis that needle is only there for a couple seconds But with galvanic the needle is there for minutes Like two to five minutes per hair and because of that they usually do 16 to 32 needles at a time So you just be covered in needles on your face And then they electrocute you and then they rip them out one at a time Um, and you as you can imagine that hurts, right? And so what I do is I do in the third method just so you know, it's called blend It's a blend of both is um the ac and dc current So it's much faster. It's about 10 seconds per hair You might think it's the best of both worlds, but in my opinion it ends up being the worst of both worlds So while it is fast It's also applying the heat into the skin and the really bad thing with thermolysis is twofold One its kill rate is the lowest of the three And two which means that a good chunk of your hair is going to grow back because it didn't kill it But number two and most importantly it can damage the glue that holds your skin together And so you can end up with pitting in your skin because you've damaged the skin Galvanic doesn't do that galvanic doesn't use heat it uses electricity And so yeah, you're damaging your skin because you're electrocuting yourself But like my skin is fine Like I'm not pitted and so it just takes way longer and is way more painful So So then um, okay cool. So now I've got bottom surgery coming up and The thing with men and women is that we all have basically the same bits, right? We have this We all have the same parts. They're just in different places A few things are different that happened in the womb But the the physical bits that you see they're basically the same And so what they're going to do is they're going to move the skin in the nerve endings and do a feminine location You can kind of imagine what that would entail, but they reusing most of those parts So because they're reusing most of those parts and because hair grows down there Oh, yeah, you see where this is going They require permanent hair removal On the bits themselves And so because there's permanent hair removal I have to do electrolysis On the bits themselves Until all of that hair is gone Prior to surgery they will be sticking a needle Into my bits over every hair And electrocuting my bits For two to five minutes at a time Ripping the hair out from my bits And then moving to the next one. Oh, yes That's before my surgery Oh, yes, that starts next month Yes, that starts next month I am both looking forward to that and not looking forward to that at the same time You're welcome. Yeah, that's what happens if you troll.  Like that doesn't work here. I'm just going to keep going Yeah Yikes Yeah I keep it says I really appreciate your openness about this stuff Yeah, actually some people hate it like some people don't like what I'm doing and they they view this show They're like this this show is about space and I think for the people who say that this show is about space and not transgender I mean, you're partly right But this this show is about humans in space, right? It's not about just the cosmos is about humans in the cosmos and Being transgender is being human and so these are things that other humans find interesting It's it's all about the humanity of it. So it's all related in some way because we're all human That's how it all goes together. And so yeah, might not be your shtick That's fine. Go watch everday astronaut. Go watch nasa spaceflight. It's fine But for some of you it might be and like I'm I'm not going to shy away from it And frankly I'm an engineer and I love data And so I don't mind sharing the data of what I'm going through because I find it fascinating And I know a lot of you are engineers, too You are not going to go through what I go through. You are not transgender. That's fine But you probably still enjoy the data and you probably still find it fascinating and some of you may have just learned something tonight How awesome is that may not be related to space, but learning is always good Yeah, destructor. I think that is something that I've evolved on I used to I would Benjamin would say this show is about space and I desperate I very much so tried to keep My personal stuff out of it and I've uh Mike you're hilarious. Mike, you know, I'm a club. Hold up. This is a brilliant When Disneyland reopens, I'll invite you to club 33 is my guest Mike. You don't need to I'm a club 33 member on both coasts I in fact I might even have I usually carry my club cards with me Anyhow, I appreciate it though. I would love to meet you at the club Like we'll head up to salon nouveau. I love getting a Lafitte old-fashioned up there. It's like my favorite drink of all time One of my favorite drinks of all time. I love meeting people especially at Disney. Absolutely. Um, yeah Terrence no Oh, I'm an imposter not an engineer. Actually, we've been talking a lot about imposter syndrome both at SpaceX and at home Like with carrion like just like Getting through this and I have these moments too and part of it comes from Live production comes very naturally to me. I don't know why it just does like I I see these solutions in my brain And I'm like, oh, you know, we just do this this and this and I'm in this room Filled with some of the youngest PhDs. I've ever seen in my life and I've just like And here I am just Whatever this is and I'm just like no no you just need to do and they all go huh And I realize that it Something that seemed very simple to me So It seems very simple to me And so I don't think anything of it and so like I don't feel like I'm contributing anything because It's so simple So I didn't have to do anything Right, and so there's kind of that like imposter syndrome there because it's like but But it's not hard and like I've been having conversations with carrion about stuff like this and it's like no like it is hard for other people Yeah Heat shield said I don't mind it at all. I stayed up all night watching jamie drink code and write a drink rock on what right code I was writing code. Was I building graphics? Was I building the graphics system for like here or I don't remember Uh, someone asked Oh, Alex, would I take company x or tesla employees to club 33 as guests?  We know all the hosts still come over. They'll have a conversation with us And it will be great if You don't know what it is. I generally won't bring you in because Otherwise, it's just like a restaurant Like there's like neat. It's a restaurant inside of disney and and I don't think people really understand like the significance of it But some people do yeah Uh, hi lisa. How's it going? Uh, she asks how do the changes to annual passes affect me as a club 33 member? It does not affect me as a club 33 member That's the the long and short of it. We got a thing that says Yep Paul Paul says I was hoping to go to bed an hour ago. I guess I'll have another tea. Sorry Sorry Yeah, I'm I'm not sure I'm going to leave this video as listed. I might unlist it because like it's more fun live It's a little bit weird not live, but some I don't know Uh neuros team says my girlfriend was born x y Uh that bother so Chromosomes don't matter like they do in the womb But after that like you don't look at someone and go. Oh, they have x y chromosomes. You have no idea what my chromosomes are You you know, I was born biologically male So you can assume probably correctly that my chromosomes are x y But they might not be I could be x x y I could be x x x y I could in fact be x x and have a weird abnormality in my birth and still look male I don't look male right now, but you get the idea You can't look at someone and determine their chromosomes. You just can't we didn't have people We didn't create language around Gender and sex for chromosomes a thousand years ago Ancient egyptians didn't look at someone else and go well.  There are two things that do matter.  I will always be biologically male That's how this works science cannot change that I will Internally I will not have the organs necessary or the reproductive system necessary to create children I just won't We can do womb transplants, but they're few and far between they're very dangerous and they've never been drawn to a transgender woman Also, I don't want one So like biologically I'm still male and there are like I will still have a prostate and I can get prostate cancer Right. I will not have ovaries so That bit does not change, but that's sex This gender then as well and gender is kind of and it used to be you know back when I was much younger Sex and gender fundamentally is a language meant the same thing But language evolves and language has kind of evolved for them to mean different things and gender Is our role inside of society? My gender is arguably female at this point, right? I look and sound female um If you saw me on the street and you never and you didn't know me you wouldn't think oh That's a dude, right? Once i'm done with bottom surgery, you really won't know like it will look It's incredible If you want to you can go look it up although understand it's going to be very graphic But like they look real and they function and they function Almost in their entirety like all of the questions you're going to have of like can it do this the answer is probably yes The only thing it cannot do is get I cannot get pregnant, right? so like That's the thing that fundamentally matters is gender because that's how everyone will view me That's how everyone will know me They won't even know my sex.  Sorry. I'm all over the board talking about space and my transition A new stream like didn't mean that it like That's just new stream hit on a topic of chromosomes because like that's fair. That's a fair way to I've like mentioning it, but like that's something that i'm fairly passionate about right now. So like I got on my soapbox. Sorry new stream Daniel asked do I run the video for both falcon and starship? It must involve a lot of traveling It used to involve a lot of traveling However, the way I've set up the infrastructure is that everything is run out of hot foreign including So all launch sites. So slick 30 I'm sorry slick 40 launch comp LC 39 and slick 4e I'll come back to hot thorn As does pat a and pat b down in bokeh chica That may change. I don't know yet But right now everything runs Out of effectively my control room in hot thorn and so it's it's very simple So I can run any launch at any time from there and we don't need to send anyone anywhere Which is really convenient because you know, we're only 20 minutes from hollywood And so if I want to create a director of photography a dop that is, you know World-class in coloring movies to color my cameras live I can and we sometimes do Do exactly that Oh and oh and just logged in and must be very confused. I'm so sorry oan. I'm so sorry All right, so people are basically saying that I need to leave it public You know, even if I leave it is unlisted It's fine. I'll just leave it public and then people will complain in the comments and I'll just ignore their complaints Oh, that's right I used to do live edits for our patrons where I would just sit there and like edit these videos And like you got to see like how long these things took and like Like a simple 15 second sequence would take like 30 minutes to an hour sometimes of me just sitting there and tweaking it over and over and over again You know, um I appreciate this comment uh from andris saying I hope everyone stops talking about her body and starts talking about space if she wants to speak about herself All right, but don't I don't mind speaking about myself. I'm very open about my transition As long as you guys are interested in and treat the information with Treat it with respect and I realize there are going to be a few trolls. They're just They're just they're just assholes on the internet, right? So we ignore them like we don't let them take down the group as a whole Um, I don't mind answering questions at all I'm very open about my entire transition and everything that goes into it, right? So it's it's transition itself Um, there's sexuality component of it as well. I'm very open about that also Um, I where I will close down a little bit is when it starts involving other people. So I will not talk about The other people in this section, uh, like I won't talk about carrion And if it starts to involve carrion, I won't mention it unless I talk to her about it first Or I know she's okay talking about it or she's here to speak up for herself But anything is just me talking like Just my impact no problem. I'll anything you want to know. I'm an open book I I will like I was talking about electrocuting myself earlier in in in the bits, right? Like I'll get graphic if you want me to I don't mind I think it's interesting. I really do. I think look I keep saying this. I'm an engineer, right? So yeah, I do I do a lot of electrical engineering throughout the day, but like I'm doing bioengineering here Right, it's just it's all the same thing just different Oh, yeah, abby says I appreciate your openness. It's helped me gain some confidence. It's my own transition. Absolutely Yeah, I can help people and some other people like, um, I've got a Just an absolute jerk on twitter.  But like What an awful human DQ said not wrong electrical engineering is easier. Absolutely, but I've enjoyed learning so much about like Oh, there are societal differences between men and women too, which are really interesting and like expectations of Simple things like how I stand up how I sit down how I sit in a chair What is appropriate and inappropriate? hand movements gestures sentence structure Let's see here When I walk into a room in a larger group like All of these little things that no one thinks about right if you're born female You don't think about these things because they just they just happen naturally because that's what you've always done Because you emulated the other women in your life because as children one of the first things We we're able to create a distinction on is actually gender right and so And then as children we emulate the things that we feel like we look like in little girls Do you like they look like women or at least they can they feel like they're they're connected there and little boys Are connected to men and so one emulates one again I'm using broad strokes It doesn't always happen and so we don't we don't consider these things to have happened, but they do like um Yeah, anyhow Mario it can be about space like ask me some space questions Absolutely like yeah, I'm talking transition like I I'm transitioning from male to female. We're talking about that also I love space like work in the industry Have had the show for over a decade talking about space. Let's talk space like Blue origin versus virgin galactic who's going to go who's going to send humans to space first? Well, no, I can't ask that because virgin galactic who's going to send paying customers to space first matter whiz asks a question effectively An engineering question with regards to space x so I can't answer questions like this really If it's really anything about the rocket or on the rocket, I'm not I'm not going to be able to answer it Oh, that's a good question lisa Um, which starship serial number do I think will stick the landing first? um Hmm I really thought it was going to be sn9 to be honest. I thought we were so close with sn8 We were so close so close. I thought it was going to be sn9 Uh, and I didn't realize it wasn't going to be sn9 until kind of the last second Like you could tell you kind of went it like straighten itself out and then it kind of kept going and you're like Oh, that's not good I'm hopeful that sn10 is the one I feel like we're close Having said that I'm not actually as in tune with the starship team as I am with the falcon team because um Just because the way things are right now that will change over time But like that's how it is and so I don't actually know What they need to do so I'm not entirely sure but I think it's I think it's smoother than people think But I don't know right. This is why we test How do I feel about nasa space flight in other streams showing views of starship, especially during launches? um, I'm not I this is my personal opinion and not that of anyone else um And it's important to this like personal opinion. I'm not a huge fan of them having infrastructure that's kind of In the way of some of my shots I'm also not a fan of them showing people working without their prior approval Meaning you've got workers down there that are being broadcast live But no one asked their permission to do that just in general I'm not cool with that like Doesn't matter if it's NSF or someone else um that That's my personal stance on it How many times did take falcon nine to stick the landing? Okay. Yeah, it's fair took a bunch took a while It took a while Uh, I looked it took a long while so Who knows uh, andress asks, uh What? um What do you think about low earth exploration? When are we? close to outer space Uh, I'm not sure. I totally understand the question I think we need to get out of lower earth orbit if that's the question I actually am a big fan of blue origin sys lunar space plan I think we need to send humans to the moon living and working On and around the moon in a sys lunar Area, right? Um, I think that's the next step for humanity and not like Seven people but thousands of people living and working on the moon That's where we need to be next in my opinion Mars is on the on the docket too. I think I think mars will be very inspiring I think it should be worked in conjunction with the moon. I don't feel like it needs to be either or um A lot of that not all but a lot of the technology that's used to get us to the moon can also be used to get us to mars But yeah, yeah, um, I think that's where we need to be Like we've been in low earth orbit for what 30 years now stuck on space station without ever going past low earth orbit We've done low earth orbit It's great. Let's move on We don't have to stop low earth orbit But let's move past it Paula says there can be streaming live from all over the world. We're kind of past it Um, that's the world we live in and nasa space light perverts a lot of information Absolutely, but change the situation a little bit. You're not live streamed at your job to the public You don't have someone watching everything you're doing and broadcasting at live. That's the difference Is this being broadcast live? Right, I that's just where I have a little bit of an issue with it Yeah, yeah, I don't have so here. Let me be clear This is a good point too. It's really cool that people can see what's happening at starship at any time Absolutely, but with that comes personal privacy concerns and I have issues with personal privacy concerns Like I do think that being able to see starship is very cool. I I really do but I also think that um Watching people work without their consent is not cool And broadcasting at live to for the world to see right That's it. I mean, that's that's just my my Oh cool. Cool. Thank you. I'm sorry about the trolls. I mean it happens What do you do? Yeah, maddie actually brings up a good point Let's make the moon normal before trying to get to the moon of another system I think that the moon is a really great testing ground three days there three days back If something goes wrong all Apollo 13 style, that's not great, but like you could potentially still salvage the crew Uh, you know Mars is a little further out, right? Something goes wrong That's going to be a bigger problem potentially Like how do you get them back quickly? Can you? So like I and I realized the technologies needed are different, but like what a great testing ground the moon is But again, I think you should do them both concurrently. These are again are all my personal opinions Um pulsar house covering starship different than uh typical falcon launches Uh, it's a different vehicle different location. Um, different expectations. The coverage is very different Um different needs Right, it's not an operational vehicle. It's not in it's not operating and even mad. It's not bringing up payloads at this point in a full operational capacity. So like what you need For a this type of article is is from a webcasting standpoint. It's very different Uh mac asks, can we talk firefly launch? It was firefly launchy. Did I miss that? Destructor, this is a bad joke and it's funny. Uh, let's cancel the term sys lunar. It assumes the moon is sys That's a funny trans joke I enjoy I enjoy that Mario says and this is an interesting concept and I think it might be true Any habit system that can work on the moon will absolutely work on mars so long as dust storms are not an issue I guess there is a difference between the lunar regolith and the martian regolith though the lunar regolith is very very Sharp and wants to cut through seals, right? I don't know that the martian regolith is quite the same Now that might be an advantage for mars to your point if you can make it work on the moon. It's easier on mars um But I don't know that to be true. I don't actually know that to be true That's a good question though like or yeah Oh, yeah, john actually brings up another good point the martian had some surprisingly technically accurate parts Although some parts were obviously fiction. Yeah, that that recovery launch was not But I mean you got it. You got a You have to take some liberties Yeah, vax is saying martian regolith is not sharp so theoretically It would be easier on mars Then on the moon because you wouldn't have something trying to like slice through everything Yeah, what works on the moon should work on mars Many says I think gravity on mars could cause a challenge perhaps designed on the moon. I mean It is more certainly, but it's like it's less than one g So fundamentally if it works on earth and the moon then it will work work on mars. How's that? Oh, yeah, depot dolphins slice open your space suit to get to a space station. Yeah You have to like there are loud moments. It is the reason movies have suspension of disbelief Is because like you want to be entertained by the story, right? And so you do need to have a moment of suspension of disbelief, but it was still surprisingly accurate Especially in a world where like They suspend they suspend reality quite a bit in a lot of those movies. Um, let's see here the core Is a great example. I love the core because of how bad it is Like it's so much fun to watch and just like laugh at how terrible the core is Oh, yeah, that's a great bad movie armageddon Armageddon, that's the one where it's uh Russian parts us parts all made in china that one, right Uh nick, do I think all people need to move people? Yeah, let's try this again Do you think all the people going to space need to be scientists when moving from discovery to becoming more multi-planetary? No, not at all and I don't think we even need to wait that long. We need one of everything in space, right? We need electricians in space plumbers. We need people fixing the space toilet We need that now on the space station Especially on the american side, right? Just like someone constantly over watching the space toilet making sure it doesn't break Uh, oh, was it all made in taiwan? um You know, uh, we need artists up there to help inspire people we need, um We need doctors in space when when people get hurt. We need dentists in space. We need one of every we need we need um, I'm gonna try and say chefs in space Genitors in space. We need all of that. We need that like right away As soon as you start getting like 100 200 people you're going to need to start needing bringing up these more specialized tasks And so what we need to do is to start getting a lot of people into space And as soon as you start to do that you start to need a lot more types of people into space Which makes it grow even more which creates this compounding effect Which is this is why a huge fan of the idea of Getting thousands of people living and working in cislunar space This is pretty funny. Oh, I can't get to it. We need politicians in space Maybe maybe um, but they might need to be like outside the airlock with no space suit I joke I joke actually politicians aren't bad like when you Politicians aren't bad. It's it's funny to joke about but Realistically like they're trying to do a job and they're trying to create compromise and it's really difficult Especially when you're thinking of like how many people They're trying to make happy and like especially with the Wide range of views that they have everyone has on particular issues. It's an impossible job And it's it's easy to joke and and say What is fundamentally a terrible joke like what I just said, but at the end of the day It really truly is an impossible job There is no winning at it. I wouldn't want to do it That's where the lawyers the same thing with the lawyers though Anyhow, so there are a lot of SpaceX technical questions. I have to ignore them like I I can't answer those questions like I I'm sorry like you can ask them. I'm just going to ignore them Let's see here Oh mario. I'm going to school For civil engineering. My goal is to be one of the first people involved in building Martian settlements That'll be really freaking sweet and we're absolutely going to need that I like Or or lunar settlements Steven Bruce you're going to bed, but you loved it. I have a great night night. Yeah great I'm gonna have to go to bed soon too. Have a great night bruce. I hope you had fun Yeah, actually destructor 1701. This is a better comment We need politicians to experience the overview effect those some are on I think I don't think it's just politicians that'll be immune to the overview effect for those who don't know When you launch the space And you see the earth is a single cohesive unit without borders Just as the beautiful blue Globe that it is the blue marble, right? It can have a profound impact on you as a human because it just gives you It's it's it could be as I understand it It's almost like the universe speaking directly to you and showing you this thing of absolute awe in beauty and grandiose-ness in its scale And it can it can have a very positive Impact on people. It's called the overview effect when you have the overview of the entire planet and um I don't think it's just politicians that need to see it. I think Everyone should have the opportunity to experience the overview effect. I think every human on the planet Should have an opportunity to see the awe in majesty of planet earth From space How incredible would that be? I think a lot of our problems would go away But to your point not everyone will be touched in the same way That's okay. Like we're all human. We all view things differently is what it is I would argue that politicians are no different than anyone else. Some will some will be inspired by it Some will not Would you rather go skiing on mars?  You started skiing you got a little bit of skiing in your blood and you can't get enough now Now you want to go ski at other planets mars, right? Because they've got well Yeah, mars because they've got larger hills you can go down and um The mountain on mars the really big mountain that's obscenely tall um Olympus Mons, right? That's the really tall one the thing with that one is It's really really big, but it's great is really low, right?  Wouldn't that be cool? That'd be pretty cool I could see the delay of ruins answering Olympus Mons. Yeah Uh, it's rocket science did I ever get to meet bob and dug personally? Yes, I did Uh, oh, that's not my story to share. Uh, but yes, I did John actually has another really good point if nothing else the overview effect shows the fragility of our thin atmosphere absolutely, um It shows the fragility of life itself Arguably life itself and how precious life is All of it. I think having never experienced it. I can say that Oh, and I'm not sure I have a great response to this What is my favorite response to people who say why are we spending money on space when we can't solve our own problems on earth? I think my general response is we're not spending money in space Um, we're spending money here on earth to solve problems in space that helps solve problems here on earth as well Um, it really helps to push humanity forward if we don't look up and we're always looking down We'll never move forward Right and we need a way to move forward. We need to look up We need something to inspire us and yes, we have plenty of problems here on earth But we will always have problems here on earth But if we're willing to look up and be inspired and be optimistic Maybe that can help to solve some of those problems here on earth indirectly sometimes directly How's that for an answer? Uh, let's see here Christo says where is space mic? Um space space mic is no longer with tomorrow. Um No hard feelings nothing bad. Uh, he won't be coming back Uh, he's he's moved on. I don't think he's really working too much in space The problem with space is there's not a lot of the joke is uh, what's the fastest way to become a millionaire in space? Start a billionaire. Um start as a billionaire and you know, there's just not a lot of money in space and so, um Like He is a very passionate individual and he's passionate about space and I do hope he comes Back and talks to people on his even on his own channel about space, but he won't be back on tomorrow Nick, uh, nick says, you know, how do you? um Talk to why spend money in space or on space programs as a put when we have problems here on earth And nasa answers this by releasing the science that's been done every year I think there's a great way to do it too. I think nasa does a lot with the money that they're given They do an incredible job with the amount of money they're given A destructor has an interesting answer, which is How much money do we spend creating problems here on earth? Let's divert some of that before diverting money from progressive activities like exploration Yeah, like and that's a good point too is like you don't have to divert thumbs from space exploration You don't have to look you don't have to divert thumbs from anything. It's it's all It's all what we choose to do We choose how much money we're going to put into space We could put more into space. We could put less into space. It's a choice that we make So we choose how far we're going to go every year with how much money we decide that we're willing to invest in space exploration Like we could go to the moon by 2024 But we have to choose to give nasa enough money to do it, which we have not chosen to do We've told them they should do it, but we've not given them the tools to do it and until we make that hard choice You know stuck in low earth orbit. We shall remain stuck on this planet. We shall remain In what refers to space exploration like oh that didn't work. There we go. Let's try that again Oh, it did work. It just okay in what refers to space exploration like mars I do you think like mars conquer? I don't know we need to conquer mars Do you think it would be a worldwide or any country would lead to conquer? I don't I don't know that there's anything to conquer on mars. Mars is a dead planet um Mars is a complicated one. It's very difficult. I don't think it will be one entity But it'll probably be one country And to be blunt it will probably be the united states And I say that because the us is putting the money in and other countries are not it might be china But they seem to be focused on the moon And if another country like australia goes, you know what? We're going to put humans on uh on mars. This is something we've decided to do and they put the budget behind it to make it happen I I'll change my tune at that point But you really have to look at where the numbers are and what countries are spending money where when with regards to space The united states is the clear leader So they're probably going to be the ones that are putting humans on mars Um, how do I feel about the mindset that technological advancements mainly come from uh advancements and weaponry? I'm not sure that's a mindset. I I believe that to be true. Is it not? I mean, I believe it to be a statement not an opinion So if it There's nothing to feel there Like if that's a true fact that a lot of technological technological advancements come like think about it this way um a lot of stuff a lot of the computer advancements what we had came from the apollo program Arguably apollo itself was not a weapon, but it was kind of it was a um It was a it was part of the race in the cold war And so it was part of that same system in a way loosely based And so there is advantage that comes out of that and i'm not sure there's anything wrong with that. It just is like It just is I could be wrong too. Like i'm not ed. I'm not well enough educated on that. That's just potential opinion I mean his opinion, but like What do you think about decommissioning of the international space station good or bad for nasa? Well, uh, hopefully good Um, arguably getting rid of the space shuttle was good for nasa because they needed to get It took them too long to get to an alternative, but like now they've got Soon they will have multiple vehicles. They can fly to space station on Far safer vehicles that they can fly the station on and i once they get rid of station Actually, what would be better than getting rid of station? I think is repurposing it What would be reall