Bob Zimmerman discusses a brilliant concept by European engineers: "tumbleweed" rovers. These swarm vehicles would roll across Mars, blown by the wind, acting as weather stations.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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AUGUST 1955
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| 0:31.0 | This is CBS on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Behind the black, Bob Zimmerman, immediately to Texas, |
| 0:36.7 | Boca, Chica, Texas, and Starbase. Bob, a very good evening to do. I believe we're waiting on the 11th test. In the meantime, |
| 0:39.6 | there's some real estate around Starbase that is always in reflection. What is it decided |
| 0:46.4 | this week? Good evening to you. Good evening, Jim. No, this is just generally the trend and the good news. |
| 0:51.2 | Starbase has now taken control of nearby beaches, the nearby beaches |
| 0:56.5 | at Boca Cheek. It has made a deal with the county, the local county, Cameron County, |
| 1:03.4 | in which they hand over a portion of the Boca Chiba Beach to SpaceX, I'm sorry, not the SpaceX, |
| 1:09.2 | to Starbase, the town, the new town there, |
| 1:12.2 | for that town to clean and maintain the bed and maybe improve the beaches, |
| 1:18.2 | and this also gives them power to close it when necessary for starships and heavy launches. |
| 1:24.9 | So this is part of the general trend in Texas law to move things from other controls |
| 1:31.8 | to the Starbase itself, not to the company Star Base, but to the town Star Base. |
| 1:36.7 | Now, of course, that town is mostly inhabited by Star Base Starship employees, I'm sorry, |
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