James Rogers
👤 Speaker
521
total appearances
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Yeah, James Rogers.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Thanks for having me down here, guys.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Yeah, of course.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Based up in Santa Barbara, so super easy to get down.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Deckers.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
I went out there for graduate school to UC Santa Barbara.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
I did my PhD in material science.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Turns out that's the place to go for that.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
I was in Pittsburgh before that.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Got out to Santa Barbara and was doing my PhD in material science, studying solar paint.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Kind of weird.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
You paint something and it dries into a solar cell.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
That was actually where appeal came from was, hey.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
Power's expensive now, though.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
It doesn't make any sense.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
It was, like, ranked, like, yeah.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
It was crazy.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
I flew out in March.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and they were de-icing us on the runway.
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Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Sacks Spikes AI EO | Dan Shipper, James Rogers
And then I land in Santa Barbara, and it's...