#SpaceX: Why #Test2 failed and why Tes#3 will succeed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
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#SpaceX: Why #Test2 failed and why Tes#3 will succeed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/elon-musks-employee-update-released-january-12th/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website behind the black, which means he watches Boca Chica, Texas, very carefully, because we're all waiting |
| 0:16.0 | for the third test of Starship Super Heavy. |
| 0:19.5 | And amazingly, that requires us to solve Washington DC's administrative state. |
| 0:26.0 | Bob, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:28.0 | We need an update on Elon Musk's contest with the FCC, the FAA, and I believe the NLRB. |
| 0:38.1 | Have I got all the letters correctly? |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, you've only listed three though. |
| 0:42.1 | There's another six or so government agencies after |
| 0:45.0 | Elon Musk as well because, you know, he's obviously an evil bond villain and must be destroyed |
| 0:52.1 | by the Biden administration. |
| 0:53.4 | You've listed at least three correctly though. |
| 0:56.0 | And the NLRB is case at point. |
| 0:59.2 | When last we left the NLRB, it was a protest from the NLRB about the firing, the exiting, of employees |
| 1:08.4 | who had spoken poorly of the conduct of Mr. Musk and of the company, which of course is a great success. |
| 1:17.0 | But that was some years ago. Is there new information about from the NLRB? |
| 1:21.0 | No, no, the update I've got, John, has nothing to do with actually directly to do with any of this administrative |
| 1:29.2 | harassment, government harassment of Elon Musk. It does indirectly, but what happened is sometime in the last two weeks, |
| 1:37.6 | Elon Musk gave an update to the employees at Boca Chica, Texas, the people who are basically building |
| 1:47.2 | Starship Super Heavy. |
| 1:49.0 | And they posted that video this week online, and in fact I linked to it on Behind the Black I linked to a |
| 1:55.6 | version which Trish snipped out all the applause moments which cuts the length |
| 2:01.6 | of the talk in about half. So you just get the meat of what |
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