Tim Dodd

Like, where did this money come from?

Why?

Like a million dollars is a good budget for a, for a film, like a film like that.

Like he uses that as a, as a look at me.

And it's like, well, like,

Yeah, okay, I'll be happy to.

Where do you want to start?

Where do you want to start?

Yeah.

Well, let's start off.

Uh, so a lot of the things like when you see, uh, you know, that clip of, of the Walt Disney clip with, uh, Von Braun was, that was, I think 1958, 19, like way before 10 years before 10 to 12 years, way before they had even decided that that was talking about doing things like direct descent.

So not doing the moon orbital rendezvous where they leave, you know, they have the lunar lander.

Why don't you find the clip?

Yeah, I'd be curious on the exact date, because the vehicle that he shows on screen is this massive vehicle that looks more like Starship, frankly, where you have this recoverable upper stage.

The idea is if you're reusing hardware, you're expending some of your payload potential in order to be able to reuse the hardware, right?

And the Saturn V basically was like, well, let's just throw it all away, right?

And including like, you know, let's talk about first the Saturn V. The Saturn V, you know, Wade, I'll use, I have to use kilograms, sorry.

And yeah, it was about 2.2800 tons.

So 2,800,000 tons or 2,900,000 tons at liftoff, sorry, kilograms at liftoff.

So 2,900,000