00:00And the other thing which is happening in the media is they're talking about Amazon recently launched its own satellites to compete with Elon's Starlink, which dominates the satellite Internet market.
00:11At the same time, obviously, you've got Trump's administration of proposed cuts to NASA funding, which Elon called troubling, giving SpaceX's role as a major NASA contractor.
00:21How do you see Trump's policies affecting the space industry and what does that mean for Elon's ventures?
00:27I don't know. Everything has changed with Trump. Under Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency was given card blanched instructions, make it as difficult as possible for Elon at Boca Chica.
00:48You know, in other words, if there's potentially a flock of ducks, is it a flock of ducks or a gaggle of bees or something?
00:56Yes. Yes. Then cancel the launch, you know, and make them set everything up again at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars in two days time.
01:12So, no, things have improved dramatically. They don't do that anymore. So they've been given orders or they've been removed from their positions.
01:23And Elon has given a much more sensible set of rules to comply by, which they do.
01:30They definitely want to comply by the rules. But recently, last year, they were fined $150,000 because they, when you do a launch, you actually open the floodgates of several reservoirs, which contain, you know, quite a few hundred thousand cubic yards or meters of water.
01:56And you actually douse the spot that the exhaust is, it focuses on until the vehicle, the launch vehicle gets a bit off the ground.
02:08And to do that's to stop the concrete and rock underneath from melting, you know, and they were fined $150,000 because they said this deluge of water had caused soil runoff, unusually, you know, difficult soil runoff, which didn't, of course.
02:30And because they replaced the soil with bulldozers. But that's the kind of thing that they've been dealing with and anything that as petty as possible to prevent them from, from, from making progress, but that's over. That's totally over.
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