Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, the real Starship is kind of it, it is.
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It's taking a long time.
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They're spending a lot of money on this.
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It's definitely, I think, been much more difficult than they think.
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And I've given the case for iteration, getting on the limit, finding exactly where it is, stuff should blow up.
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There, like, there's a reason the risk factors of the S1, it starts immediately with Starship and it's like multiple pages long.
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Cause all this stuff depends on getting that sort of capacity into space.
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And 2024, they kept
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That thing with chopsticks, like, oh, they're almost there.
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They're gonna get it.
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It's been two and a half years, right?
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Right.
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Like the or two years, I should say.
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So it's a real risk factor, but.
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Number one, like Musk has earned
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Like an uh busk IPOs are by and large good for society.
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I think is like number like that's been sort of shown.
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Number one.
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Uh number two, their ambitions are so large.
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And the commensurate risk factors are so high.
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