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So, after my third trip, I said, okay, what we
really need to do then try's to break the space transport problem and started
SpaceX. And this was against the advice of enough important everyone I talked
to.
One friend made take a seat down and watch a
cluster of vides of rockets bluster up. Let me inform you he wasn’t distant
wrong. It was tough going there in the morning. Because I no way erected
anything physical.
I mean I erected like a model rocket as a
sprat and that kind of thing. But I no way had a company that erected any
physical. So, I had to figure out how to do all these effects and bring
together the right platoon of people.
And we did
all that, and also, failed three times. It was tough, tough going. Because the fixation
about a rocket is, the passing grade is 100%. And you don’t get to really test
the rocket in the real land.
That's going to be in. So, I presume to the fashionable
similarity for rocket architect is, if you want to produce a really difficult beta
software, you can’t run the software as an intertwined total.
And you can’t
sprint it on the processor, it’s future to run on. For the primary time you put
it all jointly and run it on that processor, it have to run with no insects.
That’s mainly
the substance of it. So, we missed the mark there. Suppose about a rocket, the passing
grade is100%. And you don’t get to actually test the rocket in the real terrain
that's going to be in.
So, I assume the stylish similarity for rocket
architects is, if you want to produce a really completed software, you can’t
run the software as an incorporated whole.
And you can’t
sprint it on the processor, it’s future to sprint on, but the opening time you
run it on the processor, it must run with no bugs. That’s principally the
substance of it.
So, we missed the mark there. The first
launch, I was picking up bits of rocket near the launch point, it was a bit
sad. And we learned with each consecutive flight.
And we were suitable to, ultimately with the
fourth flight in 2008, reach route. That was also with the last bit of
plutocrat that we had. Thank virtuousness that happed.
I suppose
the byword is fourth time is the charm?’ So, we got the Falcon 1 to route. And
also, began to gauge it up to the Falcon9 which is about an order of magnitude
more thrust.
It’s around a million pounds of thrust. We
managed to get that to route, and also developed the Dragon spacecraft, which
lately was suitable to dock and returned to earth from the space station.
Thanks.
That was a white-knuckle event. It's a huge
relief. I motionless can’t consider it really happed. But there’s lot further
that must be beyond this in order for humanity to come a space faring
civilization and eventually a multi-planet species.
And that’s
commodity I suppose it’s vitally important. And I hope that some of you'll
share in that moreover at SpaceX or other companies.
Because it’s
just really one of the most important effects for the preservation and
extension of knowledge. It’s worth noting as I ’m sure people are apprehensive
that Earth has been around for 4 billion times.
But civilization in terms of having jotting
has been about times, and that’s being generous. So, it’s really kindly of a
tenuous actuality that civilization and knowledge has been on earth.
I ’m actually fairly auspicious about the
future of earth. I don’t want to people sort of have the wrong print like we
’re each about to die. I suppose effects will most probably be okay for a long
time on earth.
Not for sure, but, most probably. But indeed
if it’s 99 likely, a 1 chance is still worth spending a fair bit of trouble to
insure that we've back up the biosphere, and planetary redundancy if you will.
And I
suppose it’s really relatively important. And in order to do that, there’s
advance that needs to do which is to produce a fleetly and fully applicable
transport system to Mars.
Which is one of those effects that’s right on
the frame of indeed insolvable. But that’s the kind of the thing that we ’re
going to try to achieve with SpaceX.
And also, on the Tesla front, the thing with
Tesla was really to try to show what electric buses can do. Because people had
the wrong print, and we had to change people’s comprehensions of electric
vehicle.
Because they used to suppose of it as
commodity that was slow and unattractive, with low range, like a golf win. So,
that’s why we created the Tesla Roadster, to show that it can be presto,
seductive and long range.
And it’s
amazing how indeed though you can show that commodity works on paper, and the
computations are veritably clear, until you actually have the physical object,
and they can drive it, it doesn’t really sink by for people.
So that I suppose is commodity worth nothing. However,
the first thing you should try to do is produce a working prototype, If you’re
going to produce a company. Everything looks great on PowerPoint.
You can make anything work on PowerPoint. But,
if you have an factual demonstration composition, indeed if it’s in primitive
form, that’s much more effective in persuading people.
So, we made the Tesla Roadster, and now we ’re
coming out soon with model S, which is a 4- door hydrofoil. Because after we
made the Tesla Roadster people said, ‘oh sure, sure we always knew you could
make a auto like that.
It’s an
precious auto and it’s low volume and small and all that but can you make a
real auto? ’Okay, fine, we’re going to make that, too. So, that’s coming out
soon.
And so that’s where effects are and hopefully,
there are assignments to be drawn there. I suppose the overreaching point I
want to make is that You guys are the magicians of the 21st century.
Don’t let anything hold you back. Imagination
is the limit. Go out there and produce some magic. Thank you.
