“Exploded Like A NUKE!” - Blue Origin’s $1 Billion Rocket OBLITERATED
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Summary
Explosion on the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Los Angeles, destroyed the New Glenn rocket carrying a crew of astronauts to space. The cause of the explosion is not yet known, but it could have been caused by a test firing.
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Connor said that, you know, yesterday was a bad day for going to space,
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And I thought it's, you know, after the time nowadays,
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when you see stuff when you're scrolling, like,
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No matter how far you are, like if you're looking, you felt that.
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Jeff Bezos tweeted about it if you want to go to it.
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Jeff Bezos, he's been on Trending Stories the last week quite a lot,
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It's too early to know the root cause, but we're already working to find it.
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But we'll rebuild whatever needs to rebuilding and get back to flying.
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Well, Rob's Twitter is Latin because Rob likes it Latin.
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Yeah. I love that instead of taking that opportunity to, you know, call him out or do any of that stuff, he gives him a compliment.
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And, you know, I said to him, you guys will figure it out. All the best.
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And it was it was interesting. It's a very different, difficult business to get into.
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Tom, when you see the explosion and what happened, what what stories do you know about it?
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What facts do you have about what happened there? Well, you know what?
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And if you go back in time and you'll find the Apollo mission, there were test firings on the launch pad.
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We had missiles and then we put, you know, a chimpanzee into space.
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He's had a rocket that launched a short distance.
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One of the perfect things he said was one of his first—Elon has tweeted a couple things on this.
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All of them are understanding and compassionate about the entrepreneur.
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In other words, all the scientists, everybody, we're way over here.
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Well, let's go back and let's—once the fire goes out, let's see if we can figure out in the wreckage of, you know, what went wrong.
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and get it but every space program has this every has it this is this is trial and error
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you think a b testing on social media ads how big it is in a plane that's 50 miles away stop it
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five zero miles imagine you're on a plane you're like oh my god it's the end of the world and you
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don't know what the hell's going on it's a nuke no pat pat think about it go do it again rob yeah
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go go back all again from from the top could you imagine you're coming in for landing everybody uh
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Pat, could you imagine, guys, before you play it, you're at a bar, you're drinking,
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you have no idea that there's even a rocket launch test, whatever.
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By the way, you know how much total damage was done in dollars?
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Aerospace analysts are saying the alleged cost, damage,
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New Glenn rocket destroyed, $150 to $300 million.
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Launchpad repairs, the LC-36, $50 to $200 million.
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Testing equipment, ground systems, $10 to $100 million.
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So many industry observers are saying at the low end minimum,
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upwards of a billion dollars of loss to what happened yesterday.
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Look, you know, for us yesterday, you know, we have things that you're going to make mistakes with as an operator,
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You have to kind of see what adjustments you have to make.
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Man up, take the responsibility and move on, make it better.
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and for me there's no way you're worth a few hundred billion dollars because you got everything
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right you're worth a few hundred billion dollars because you did a lot of things that went wrong
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and you learned from it and you adjusted while you're in the spotlight everybody bashing you
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calling you this and this and that and he has gotten to this point so i'm looking forward to
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the recovery from this to see what they do next and knowing bezos you know you're going to see
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the next story and i think the day it happens where they have a successful launch you know
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who I think is going to retweet the successful launch?
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I think Elon Musk will retweet the successful launch
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I think they're actually becoming more aligned than ever.
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Marxist, communist, woke agenda is taking over.
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And they're realizing we're in this thing together, guys.
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and so blue origin rocket blows up horribly and let me get this straight elon musk competitor to
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jeff bezos tweets then he says about rockets are tough and then the future is into the moon
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basically here's what here's where i'm going with this you've talked about this before a public loss
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like this pat i don't think we understand this like for someone like jeff bezos okay think about
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the the most public loss you've ever had whoever you are watching this right now you lost the
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super bowl you lost the big game this guy's rocket blew up and lost how many hundred million dollars
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52 billion and everyone's talking about it and your chief competitor is like hey man sorry about
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that you know dust it off get back out there go invest the money that they want you to that they
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want to tax and go build another racket go a racket rocket so it like tom said you don't win
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or lose you win or learn and i think he'll he'll learn from this and get better and shout out to
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the entrepreneurs who are doing stuff like this and i just i'll end with this the the money that
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you're not taxing mom donnie or bezos or whoever he gonna go forward to buy a new rocket because
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it costs 100 million dollars are you gonna pay for that because he will yeah yeah it's a good
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point there's a big game coming up around the corner i think nine of them are going to be in
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dallas we were at a hotel yesterday everything was about the the world soccer tournament that's
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coming out there everybody's going to be watching you know neymar messi yesterday they announced
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messi's going into a sixth world cup i don't know if you saw that it's going to be crazy it's going
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to be a big tournament that they're having and so while you're going through that depending on the
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countries you're from we have some special gear that is limited there's not a big supply of them
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and we chose the countries based on who watches the content the most and it has the future looks
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bright with the country's flag so having said that watch this video and i'll tell you what
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future looks bright gear we have here for you go ahead rob
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and argentina you know people are dancing at home right now
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so remember it's not a big supply if you're watching this you want to get the shirt combination
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this is the u.s hat that we have with the u.s flag on the lid with the soccer ball inside of it
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these things look absolutely insane and by the way we didn't get a big supply of them some of
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them it's only 50 like the iran one that we have with the shahen shahe flag on the bottom of it
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it's only 50 so if some of you guys are going to the game and you kind of want to wear the hat
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because they're saying you cannot wear the hat vinnie i don't know if i gave it to you or not
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no i don't have that do you have the iran hat more i think it's this one here i don't know
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which one it is one of these guys we have here it looks ridiculous the way there you go look at this
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on the bottom of the lid right there i love the fact that you have good iran's it's only 50 of
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If somebody buys 50, it's literally going to say sold out.
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And then you have all the other countries and U.S.
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And then if you want to combine it with the shirts, Rob,
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if you want to go a little bit lower, it'll go to click on the Argentina one,
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represent your country while you're representing the future looks bright if you enjoy this video
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