Oswald Oschin

Yeah, I mean, I remember reading Ashley Vance's book like back in the day about, you know, Elon and, you know, just how many times they blew up rockets.

And it's like, it's an iterative approach to, I mean, that's how you bring the cost down.

That's how you get to like, you actually advance the field, right?

And like land rockets on pads in the middle of the ocean.

I mean, it's...

like incredible stuff but you're not gonna there's a bit of trial and error like there's no way to there just isn't any way to like simulate the physics in a computer and then just build it and have it work out perfectly it's like you have to you have to go out there and blow stuff up and has anybody actually been to one of these tests or like a rocket launch or anything um

No, but it looks kind of... In my childhood.

I thought it looked kind of like... I saw the video or TikTok of some guys out fishing or whatever who saw the blast and thinking it was like a nuclear bomb or something.

I almost think it could be as cool to witness the explosion as it would an actual successful rocket launch.

I think it's kind of cool.

And yeah, I went out to one of these tests once for a story I did at Semaphore.

It was just a test of like one engine that's like smaller than, you know, however many engines they have.

It's like so many now.

And it was just that, you know, they were just doing like literally just firing up the engine for like four minutes or something like that to see if it worked.

And just like the power of that thing was, I mean, I was like...

I mean, hundreds of yards away, like watching this thing, and I could feel it through my whole body.

It was just like, the power of it was incredible.

And it's like, that's just one little engine.

So I don't know, I think it's like, people don't really have enough of an appreciation for what these for the just like the engineering of this of this thing.

Taylor, you covered a new book called Muskism this week on your podcast, Power User.