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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.
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