They Lost All Their Money Making A God For Elon
In a Nutshell
Sculptors are building a 50-foot bronze Prometheus statue at Starbase using their own $1 million to create a monumental entrance matching the site's historical significance. The team works long nights in harsh conditions with limited resources, driven by a belief that Starbase will become one of humanity's most important places. They view the statue as a tribute connecting past human progress with SpaceX's mission to push boundaries.
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The team is at Starbase near the side of the road. In a few days they will have their statue of Prometheus at 50 ft.
Starbase is described as a place of dreams. The comparison is made to the building of Paris, which unified science, progress, technique, and art and beauty. Today Starbase builds magical objects that go to space and come back.
Every legendary city has epic monuments at its entrance to welcome arriving people and make them feel something, to feel intimidated.
The statue is made of many bronze plates. They weld the plates together just on little points initially. Little by little the plates must be positioned perfectly. The work requires craftsmanship to find the exact position with less than a millimeter of precision. Once positioned correctly, point welding is done, and when everything is good, the real welding work begins to weld everything together.
The work is difficult. The team is used to working in a certain context but here they have nothing. They have to find everything they need. All the team is not present, so only a few people are working. The heat is significant.
The team usually works until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. because it is cooler at night.
The hope is that in a distant future, people will find these gigantic statues and think highly of our time.
The speaker was doing computer science in Paris. Their brother went to the south of France and began making small statues. The brother invited the speaker to come for 2 weeks for a vacation. The project was really starting and they needed help. The speaker began helping for a few days. A week passed, then 2 weeks, and the speaker felt they could not leave the situation. They stayed longer and longer, eventually realizing their brother had a Machiavellian plan to capture them. This was 5 years ago.
The team focused on speed and developed many techniques to work very fast. They completed a project in 1 month, but had no money left to come and install it. They had to work for a few months to earn money and finally install it.
Everything for the statue cost 1 million dollars, which came from their own money.
A status is described as the voice of the dead. It connects people with the will from the past. The speaker is very much for progress and believes that to keep progress alive, people must be connected with the flow of time.
Looking back to history shows there is a line, a continuity, and a direction that people for thousands of years have sacrificed themselves to push forward. If people do not care about history, they do not feel or know that many people pushed so hard and died so others can keep pushing for the future.
It is hard to grasp how much Elon Musk and SpaceX bring to humanity. The team wants the statue installed at Starbase because it is the place on Earth that pushes the boundaries in the most spectacular way. This place will be one of the most important places in human history.
The team wants the aesthetics and the epicness of this place to match its historical significance.
The question is raised about what happens if Starbase does not want the statue. The response is that they think Starbase will want it because the statue is epic.
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