Elon Musk

Um,

Yeah, or a country.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, actually.

Yeah, there's so much set in stone on the country front these days.

You might be able to pull it off.

Is this it right here?

If you put enough effort into it, you could make a new country.

Yeah, that's the booster.

So that's the super heavy booster.

The booster's got 33 engines.

By version four, that will have about 10,000 tons of thrust.

Right now, it's about 7,000, 8,000 tons of thrust.

That's the largest flying object ever made.

You have to explore the corners of the box.

So when you do a new rocket development program, you have to do what's called exploring the limits, the corners of the box, where you say it's like worst case this, worst case that, to figure out –

where the limits are.

Admittedly, in the development process, sometimes it blows up accidentally, but we intentionally subject it to a flight regime that is much worse than what we expect in normal flight so that when we put people on board or valuable cargo, it doesn't blow up.

So, for example, for the flight that you saw, we actually deliberately took heat shield tiles off the ship, off of Starship in some of the worst locations to say, okay, if we lose a heat shield tile here, is it catastrophic or is it not?

Nonetheless, Starship was able to do a soft landing in the Indian Ocean just west of Australia.