Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to ground control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here am I sitting in a tin can
And there's nothing I can do
Now you're starting to have a
Oh, I'm fast, 100,000 miles, I'm feeling very scared, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go,
Tell my wife I love you all very much, she knows. Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there's something wrong, can you hear me Major Tom, can you hear me Major Tom, can you hear me Major Tom, can you hear me Major Tom.
I'm here and I'm floating around like this again, I'm on the moon, my hair drop is blue, and there's something I can do.
Let's wait a few moments, let the song play out first.
GM, GM, good morning everyone, work at night, how you doing Kobe?
I don't know if Kobe can hear us.
I can hear Pablo, maybe Kobe has a problem with connection.
Yeah, we might be getting a bit rugged by Twitter at the moment.
We're also joined by Everyday Astronaut.
We have Balak and Barney from the Moondao community.
Liang Xie, how's it going Liang Xie?
Liang Xie, well, let's ask you guys.
And we also have the Chinese Elon Musk, Mei Long.
You might recognize him from his viral Twitter account, or viral TikTok.
He makes really, really, really funny videos.
We can get the real Elon Musk.
Can you guys hear me okay?
Yeah, yeah, we can hear you.
I'm going to leave and hop back in.
But yeah, we couldn't get the real Elon Musk, so we have Elon Ma.
Yeah, you guys should definitely check out his TikTok if you haven't seen it yet.
He makes amazing, amazing videos.
But yeah, how's everyone doing this morning?
Tim, thank you for joining us on short notice.
And I know it's early in the U.S. right now, so I appreciate it a lot.
It's always a good time to talk about space, though, you know.
Well, yeah, I guess we'll see if Kobe can resolve his issues real quick.
But I guess I'll just start with a little, you know, welcome to all of the people that have been lighting up our Discord.
You know, it's been incredible.
The amount of positive energy and enthusiasm and, you know, just seeing everyone all over the world that are enthused about, you know, seeing the response to Kobe's video is just absolutely amazing.
And, you know, I'll give, like, a little bit of a spiel about Moondau, but I really want to make this about, you know, Kobe and his experience.
And then we'll also be introducing our next astronaut as well.
So, yeah, Moondau is all about decentralizing access to space and making it open and accessible for people from all over the world to collaborate together towards the mission of becoming a multi-planetary species, starting with the moon.
But, yeah, I mean, I could go on forever, on and on about, like, Moondau and, you know, how far we've come.
So, we started about a year ago, and we crowd-raised to buy one ticket to send someone up into space.
And our initial goal was to raise about a half million dollars.
But the community came out in full force and raised over eight million, which is just, you know, astounding.
And, you know, it's been incredible every step of the way.
The amount of enthusiasm that people have for space, it's just, it makes me emotional sometimes, you know, just how wild this whole ride is.
But, yeah, if you haven't yet, I would check out our Discord.
So, that's really where the majority of our communication happens at Moondau.
So, we basically all work on Discord.
We're just one big community.
And you can apply to help out at a guild or work on different projects.
And the community is, at the end of the day, the ones that control the treasury.
So, you can learn about our governance as well.
We have a literal constitution because it ends up that if you have people from all over the world,
then you need to have some consensus that you need to set some ground rules.
So, we have our own constitution as well, which is, you know, it's funny.
You know, it's like we're LARPing a bit as a nation state.
But, you know, I guess that's just the way it has to go.
If you need people to work together, you need rules.
Let's see if we can get him up on stage.
I think he's already on the stage, probably.
I can hear you guys perfect now.
Technical difficulties there.
I guess it's easier to go to space.
So, I was just giving a quick intro about Moondout.
But, you know, we're all here for you, Kobe, and to celebrate, you know, that you're our
first astronaut in space.
So, you know, without further ado, I'd like to have Kobe say a few words.
You know, I feel embarrassed admitting this, but the impact of your video, like, made me
So, you know, we started getting people from all over the world pouring into our discord
and, you know, people that are in school to be engineers that were super inspired about
your journey into space and want to work in a space.
And, you know, to be honest, I cried a bit because it was so heartwarming to see the massive
You know, millions and millions of people saw your video.
And the future of space really relies on these young minds to be excited and inspired.
So, you know, all that being said, what's your message to young people that dream about
And what advice do you have for them?
Man, that's really, really cool to hear.
Well, first of all, I appreciate anybody who's taking the time this morning to tune in, at
least it's morning for me.
I know you guys are all jumping in from all over the world, but it was especially fun for
me just reliving the whole experience through the video launch.
We were blown away by the response in general.
I think, you know, it's hard to know early on, but it's the biggest launch we've ever had.
And obviously, it's probably the most exciting content we've ever released, but it was just
really encouraging to see how people, you know, I think I wondered as somebody who experienced
it myself, would it translate to, you know, on camera and be something that kind of struck
And I think that was what I was so blown away with in the comments, were how many people
said that it made them emotional watching it.
And I thought that was incredibly cool and was a testament to the whole team that actually
edited and put together the video because it was an incredibly emotional experience going
through it from, you know, signing up in the first place and all that goes into trying
to decide like, okay, I guess I'm actually going to get on a rocket.
And then, you know, your family sitting through it and then actually the experience itself and
seeing the earth from that incredible viewpoint and then landing again and being reunited with
the people that you love.
And I mean, it was a truly emotional experience on my end.
And it was neat to see that that carried through for people.
So as you mentioned, obviously, for the future of what Moondau is building and anybody else who
is hopeful of, you know, kind of an exciting future for space exploration, it was really neat
to see especially young people chiming in about how cool that was for them.
And, you know, in the video, you mentioned, you know, whether you believe in destiny or,
you know, what got you to this point and how, you know, what do you think, like, why do you
think you've had so much success with the YouTube channel?
And, you know, like, I don't think you could have ever expected to go from, you know, trick
shots in college to space.
And I remember you mentioned in the video that, you know, your faith in God and how, you know,
that is where you place your bet on this whole bigger picture.
But I'm, you know, I'm really curious, you know, did the experience make you feel more
And what, I guess, how does your faith play into the whole experience?
Yeah, it's a really great question.
I mentioned that in the video.
If there's anybody who hasn't seen it, I just, the interviewer that was asking me some
questions asked if I believed in fate.
And I told him, which this is, you know, no secret on Dude Perfect's behalf that the five
of us in Dude Perfect are Christians.
And, you know, I know there's all different worldviews out there and, you know, people have different
views of how the earth even came to be.
But for me personally, and I just felt like the experience confirmed my specific perspective
that God created everything.
And to me, life and specifically life on earth is so complex that it's never made sense to
me that all the planets could be arranged exactly the way they were and are without the hand
of an intelligent creator.
And so when I was up in the rock, it was absolutely something that I thought about, you know, looking
It did make me feel very, very small, but in a way that specifically in terms of my faith
made me feel like God had placed everything on purpose exactly the way that it is.
And so, of course, different people have different perspectives on that.
But that was my own personal experience.
And it was incredibly emotional just going through that whole experience.
And like I said, even seeing people's response to it has been incredibly cool.
And I'm curious, you know, when you landed back down, what was going through your mind?
I guess, yeah, walk us through the emotions that you're feeling when zero gravity and the
You know, William Shatner said he felt sadness.
But I'm curious, did you feel sadness or was it a pure elation or what?
What was going through your head there?
For me, it was I think it was just the biggest adrenaline rush you could ever go through.
At Dude Perfect, we've had the opportunity to do, you know, a number of kind of outrageous
I've done I've bungee jumped from I think it's technically the second highest bridge in the
If anybody has seen our bucket list South Africa video, you've watched that.
I would not consider myself a daredevil in any way.
We've kind of seen ourselves forced into some of these things in order to make some
And so for me, I think going up and I've told people this, it's Blue Origin design, such
an incredible experience.
It's very calm the entire way up.
I mean, you're just sitting in a very quiet capsule.
All you can hear is each other talking.
And so the experience on the way up was it's like a roller coaster, like you're just looking
or almost like going up an elevator in a skyscraper.
You're just looking out your window and things are just changing a little faster than you're
And, you know, by the time I got up to the top, what they had talked about with us in
those three days of training, they had kind of messages from the, I guess it would have
been 30 astronauts who had traveled up before on the previous five Blue Origin flights.
And they asked them what they wanted to tell the next people going.
And they told us, just look out the window.
I wish I'd spent more time looking out the window.
And so for me, the actual experience in space was a lot about balancing the two things that
I wanted to experience the zero G, flip around, do all that cool stuff.
We talked about, you know, should I do some type of trick shot up there?
And then also the other major thing was what they said was just look out the window, take
You're very likely not going to have another chance anytime soon to experience what you're
experiencing up there and taking in those views.
And so that was interesting for me, knowing that I'm making a video that people are going
I wanted that piece to be entertaining, but it's also a truly once in a lifetime experience
that, you know, I wouldn't likely have again, at least anytime soon.
And so, yeah, I mean, it was, it was a lot to balance, but I feel like it couldn't have
The people that I shared the experience with, we all had a blast.
I explained it in the video, but just all of a sudden you're floating and you don't
have to do anything to cause it.
You're just floating around.
The tiniest little push would send you almost all the way across the capsule.
That in and of itself was nuts.
And then coming down was super smooth as well, except for when you hit the atmosphere, that
was when you see us in the video.
I feel like my face was getting peeled back.
And so you feel that for about five to 10 seconds and then all of a sudden you're back
on earth and landing, which was actually really smooth.
If you don't mind, I actually have a couple of questions here.
First off, congratulations.
The video is just so fun.
And I have to say that's my, that's the best video we've seen from anything from the New
Shepherd experience by far.
Um, so I wanted to ask, uh, two questions about that first off, like what was it like
to work with blue origin as a, you know, as a media group, you know, as, because they're
pretty tight lipped about what things get shared and how they get shared.
Um, but they obviously gave you guys some amazing views, um, and, and, uh, access to all
It seems like, which was just incredible for us as viewers, but also what was the peak
So if, if I remember correctly, make sure my mic is turned back on here.
If I remember correctly, I believe the peak Gs that I experienced were five Gs on the way
back in, which is honestly not that many.
Like it's not, it wasn't even crazy at all, which is nuts to me that you could go up and
And that's all you experience.
Um, I figured when you're going 2000 miles an hour up, you'd feel like you're just being
pressed all the way into your chair.
And it's hard to even describe how casual it felt.
You're just, it's like, you're laying down on your bed.
Um, so that was, that was nuts.
Maybe there was just too much going on in my head, but everybody else described it the
Um, blue was amazing to work with.
Um, as I described to, um, the Moondale folks before we ever got going, this was not
like I, I had watched a number of the other flights, but just as a casual observer, this
wasn't something that I was, um, you know, deeply aware of every nuance of.
And could have told you every difference between how they were going to do their flights versus
all of the other, um, groups that are out there.
And so I was coming in pretty neutral to the whole experience.
And I was just really impressed the whole way through from just the way that they had
communicated to me as a normal person, jumping on one of these experiences, um, all the way
through the, the actual flight itself.
It was, it was, it was an incredible, incredible experience.
Couldn't have enjoyed it anymore.
Yeah, I, I also want to ask, so, um, you know, you've, you've reached millions and millions
of people worldwide with, with your channel.
And, uh, you know, uh, most young people, I think if you ask them what they, what they
want to be, uh, it's either something like an astronaut or, or a YouTuber.
And, uh, now you're, you're both, uh, so I'm curious, you know, what, what, uh, advice
do you have for, for people that want to get started in YouTube, um, and, and become a content
Um, yeah, I'm curious, what, what would you, what advice would you give yourself, uh, when,
when you were starting out?
Yeah, uh, great question.
Um, I think the biggest advice I'd give to anybody specifically on YouTube, which I guess
would transcend to any other type of entertainment, um, is I don't think you can force something
You know, people asked us if we set out to do it on purpose.
And I, I referenced that a little bit in the video.
We certainly did not, but we made the first video that we made in our backyard in the town
of college station, which is where we went to school.
Um, and we were just having a good time.
And I think truly that's what it comes down to.
Um, you know, whether it's, whether it's you everyday astronaut or anybody else making
content, if you don't love it and genuinely enjoy what you're making, it's just not going
to come through on camera or on a podcast or whatever else your medium is for the people
that you hope will enjoy the content.
Um, it just, it has to be genuine or you're going to feel you're not going to have the drive
to keep doing it yourself.
And it's just not going to feel, uh, genuine to the people who are watching.
And so my biggest piece of advice is if you're looking to do something in the content space
is to do something that you genuinely, genuinely enjoy.
And if you and the people you're doing it with are having fun, I do think that comes through
on camera and people just can't help, but enjoy, um, what you've created.
Yeah, that's, that's great advice.
Yeah, I think, I think that that makes a lot of sense and probably applies to, um, almost
Um, yeah, if, if you don't, if you don't love it, it's, it's tough to, to keep, keep going
and push through the hard parts.
So I'm, I'm also curious, you know, uh, crypto has, has somewhat of a reputation, you know,
of being loaded with, with scams and people trying to take advantage.
And, you know, MoonDAO has faced some pretty heavy headwinds and, and, you know, trying
to do the right thing and, and, uh, just, you know, being, uh, a good organization.
Um, but I'm curious, you know, what, what has it been like working with, uh, a DAO?
It's, it's a very new type of organization, you know, it's, it's pretty decentralized.
So I'm curious, you know, do, do you feel aligned with the ethos of, uh, of a decentralized
Um, what was your first impressions of us and, and has, has any of that changed for
My first impression with you guys was that you guys are a lot smarter than I am or ever
will be just to even be able to put together what you guys have done is remarkable to me.
And I would actually consider myself a fairly techie person.
So, um, for all of you guys who are, uh, dialed in on what MoonDAO is all about, um, it's
impressive in terms of what you guys have created.
So first of all, huge kudos on that side, just to actually, cause I, I know what it's
like to build a business.
And I always tell people who are entrepreneurs that, you know, people are not going to understand
how much work goes into building, um, what you have done.
But, um, you know, even if they don't see it, you'll always know how much you put into
And so, um, even without understanding all of the technical backend of what you guys have
built, it's impressive to me of how you have, um, you know, garnered support from people
And so, and that, uh, just huge kudos to you guys.
And it's been a real privilege working with you guys.
There's, there's a lot that goes into it and yeah, it's definitely, um, something that,
that isn't, uh, isn't, isn't well understood yet, but I think that we'll, we'll get there
Um, especially I think the, the issue is that the, the loudest parts of crypto are often,
you know, ones that, that are trying to, uh, get, you know, new people in that don't really
understand the space and then, uh, just take, take advantage.
And so it's, uh, it's really tough, uh, you know, trying, trying to just be a legitimate
And, and I think people will come at you with a little bit of skepticism.
So it's, uh, you know, it's, it's definitely, it can be tricky sometimes.
Um, but I also wanted to ask, you know, what's, what's next for Dude Perfect?
You know, you've, you've gone to space, um, you know, what, what ambitions do you have
Is there anything, you know, what, what do you want to do, I guess, before, before you die,
you, you have the, the bucket list videos are awesome, but you know, what, is there
anything in particular that that's really, really, you know, the, the big next thing
that you're, you're looking forward to?
You know, we've, we announced on Twitter, we actually have not created a video yet.
We've been working on it.
Um, but we're, the next big project at Dude Perfect is we've always wanted to create
a destination in person that people can come and enjoy as a family.
Uh, we have our headquarters in Frisco, Texas right now, which is where we've been making
videos from for the past three or four years.
And people come all the time.
It's just not open to the public.
And so the best they can do is take a picture outside and, you know, if the timing works
out and everybody, you know, nails it at the right time, maybe one of us is out there and
So, um, we've always wanted to create a place where people can, um, experience a lot of the
types of stuff that we've done over the last 14 years.
And so that's the big project we have working on, um, that we've been working on the last
couple of years is actually creating a destination where families can come and try, you know,
the world's highest shot off a 300 foot tower or play our version of putt-putt, um, or throw
a baseball through a moving car, um, and do a lot of the stunts that they've seen, um,
So it's an ambitious goal.
It would, it's going to be a big project.
We're raising money now and working with cities to try to determine exactly where it's
going to be, but we're really excited about it and feel like that's something that we hope
people will really rally around because, you know, what we've had so far, the headquarters
have been for us, we want this next place to be for everyone, um, and, uh, something
that we're really, really, uh, really pumped about.
Well, I'd, I'd like to, you know, open this up to the other speakers that are here on stage
if they want to ask, um, Kobe, any, any questions?
Um, I think, uh, so, uh, a couple of the, of the people here on stage, um, they, they're,
they're from China, so we'll, we'll have to translate some of their questions
over, um, uh, uh, Yangqi, I wanted to ask you in particular, uh, what, what questions
do you have for, for Kobe?
Uh, uh, so, Kobe, uh, Yangqi want to ask you, uh, you, you own, uh, uh, what is
Okay, uh, so, Kobe, uh, Yangqi want to ask you, uh, you, you own, uh, uh, what are you?
i'm sorry he wanted to ask what on like 16 million followers on youtube uh do you have time
to you know use your time to make video or just you have a lot of time to do stuff by yourself
like like free time yeah no great question thank you for asking that it sounded way cooler in
spanish i mean in in chinese uh that's incredible i wish i'd learned that myself um uh it does take
a lot of time to film everything that we're filming i feel like we're probably busier today
than we ever have been but at the same time we all have families now and so we have tried really
really hard um to set business hours where we're you know we'll film hard all day long most of the
week but um we do have time um after work uh to to be with our families and do things that we love i
enjoy playing golf and playing basketball and um and so we all have young kids now and um so that's a
big piece of our life so yeah thank you for asking fortunately we do still have some downtime which
is great okay thank you for the question um两种就是他说他就是已经结了婚了然后他平时
也挺多空闲的时间但是最近因为要忙着这个视频嘛然后也很忙然后他平时
比较喜欢打打高尔夫啊然后打打篮球啊然后平时周末就在家里看孩子这样子对
嗯好好好大概了解了还是时间比较繁忙的对吧然后除了有些时间
打打高尔夫球然后我的话没有什么问题了就想了解一下他们的生活
thanks you and she yeah it's it's so interesting you know uh like space really does bring like
everyone everyone together from all over the world and uh you know i think you know the the common
language of of uh you know our our back end of ethereum is it's wild how it just reaches uh
everyone um uh tim i i wanted to uh give you the the stage next you know so for for those that um
that uh are just joining us with with moondao we we voted on the the winner of the ticket to space
uh uh that that we we got as the community and it was neck and neck between tim and kobe um
i remember watching that it was it was back and forth like one two percent um and uh so i'm you
know i'm it's it's amazing having both of you here on stage to talk and and tim has been just
absolutely incredible uh all all the way through uh same with kobe so you know i i'm i'm it's awesome
to have you both here thank you thank you so much for being here tim yeah for sure i mean this has been
uh obviously for me i i mentioned this earlier for uh when we were had that uh the vote thing but
you know going to space for me is not actually something that you know i've dreamt of my whole
life it's not even something that i really necessarily aspire to do even in my adult life
even in my career um but i i do think there's so much beauty in the idea of um the the everyday
person you know uh being able to dream about going to space and having the access
of space so seeing that you guys actually truly launched a general person from you know from
society into space uh was uh quite a feat and it was really fun i mean and uh frankly it was a good
thing that that you guys didn't vote on me because during the during the actual launch i was running
around like crazy and uh i couldn't even i was hoping to just be able to watch it live of course
and i couldn't even watch it live other than just being on my cell phone i wanted to be able to scream
it i was just sitting there watching it on my phone and cheering along uh it was it was so cool but
geez what a crazy it's such a crazy time to be alive right now as a spaceflight fan because there's
just so much happening in the last like literally the last two years feels like it's just impossible to
keep up with now and this is just another milestone in my head of like well i guess literally you know
with with stuff like this and inspiration for um and you know some of the other missions going on
now it's like oh people that i know my friends and like general people from society are just casually
going to space now um and it's really become uh it's it's truly like a new a new page in history and
it's really really fun to watch and and cheer on absolutely i'm i'm curious you know you you're
probably the the most knowledgeable person up here on stage about um you know all of the different
launch vehicles that are out there and um i'm curious you know what what is to you the the most
exciting thing happening in in space right now is it is it starship you know is it something else that
maybe people here aren't aren't as aware of um i'm curious you know what is uh uh what is something
that that you're in particularly like extremely enthused about in in the next say like year or two
oh it's really hard to not get excited about starship if you guys aren't familiar with what
spacex is working on down in south texas at the very very very southern end of texas outside of
south padre island in brownsville texas uh there's a place that spacex lovingly calls starbase and
there they are working on the world's largest most powerful rocket by a great great magnitude i mean
it is it's insane it's a 120 meters tall so 300 almost 400 feet tall nine meters wide so 30 feet wide
um it's going to be twice as powerful as over twice as powerful as the saturn five that took humans to the
moon um in the in the near future and it just keeps getting and so far the the full stack has not
launched but when that thing launches um it's going to be quite literally groundbreaking and quite
literally earth shattering i believe and it's going to be quite the spectacle to watch um and the fun
thing about spacex's approach is that they are not afraid to have things blow up i think they're taking
it a little bit slower now they're dealing with literally millions and millions of kilograms of
of highly explosive propellant um you know they're starting to fuel this vehicle up to um levels that
they've never had to deal with on any vehicle before or that anyone in history has ever put this much
propellant into a vehicle um so that's just been really fun to watch just because it is the scale of
that whole program it's going to be you know um aspirationally it's it's fully reusable so the
rocket um none of it is discarded none of it's thrown away literally will go from launching to
landing refuel and repeat you know airliner like that's the ultimate dream uh it still feels to me
like a little bit far off like the next year i hope to at least just see a full stack leave the ground
like that's my that's my milestone of of excitement is if the full stack leaves the ground by the end of
2023 i'll be really happy um and frankly it's yeah it still feels like it's a ways away before we'll see
any of those big promises of rapid reusability um out of a system that size with that much complexity
that much scale that much you know even fueling where do you get all the fuel from how do you get
just all of the different things um it's going to be it's probably going to be a little bit more
painfully slow before it's truly living up to its promise um but they're making as much progress
as possible it's just been really fun to watch that but overall i'd say like for me the the one
of the exciting things is just seeing how many companies there's a lot of momentum in the aerospace
industry there's a lot of companies that no one had ever heard of you know two years ago that are
all of a sudden doing incredible things and there's um last i counted i did a video about this last summer
and when i made a video about comparing all the new small set launch vehicles there's 154 companies
trying to launch into space like at that moment like there was 154 people working on get making
orbital rockets um and 100 not 144 people but 154 companies you know with potentially hundreds of
employees or thousands of employees working on getting to orbit and so it's just there's so much
momentum right now in the aerospace industry that it's it's hard to not get excited about this being a
new and exciting industry um where you know i feel like more and more people are getting involved i know
more and more people that are switching their degrees more and more people that are dreaming of
the stars and and of exploring and actually getting out there um and doing things that humanity's never
done before and it's just really exciting i guess well the last thing i'll say about this the last thing that
i'm really excited about too is um there's an upcoming mission with the polaris dawn crew
which is uh jared isekman who who paid for the inspiration for mission that you may have seen on on
netflix they had a whole thing called countdown which is amazing uh but they're studying right
now their next mission is going to be doing um it's him and and a guy named scott kid poteet and
two spacex engineers are going up into orbit higher than any earth orbit before they're going to be
doing an eva so an extra vehicle activity where they're going to open up the hatch let uh there are
two of them two out of the four actually going to leave the vehicle and do an extra vehicle activity
for the first time in commercial history um but what's cool is they're kind of training
to maybe go and try to service the hubble space telescope our beloved hubble space telescope that
has brought us so many fascinating and uh amazing images throughout history uh does have a short
lifespan like it is imminent in the next you know 15 20 years if it's not serviced it will burn up and
re-enter and and be offline so they're actually looking talking with nasa about how a private
company and a private mission can go up and fix and service the hubble space telescope to reboost
it get up into a higher orbit if that when that study comes out if they actually give give the green
light for um a polaris crew uh with jared isaacman and whoever else has chosen for that one to go up
and service hubble that's going to be like the coolest thing ever that a private individual
is going up to fix a beloved space icon and yeah that's some of the stuff that i'm excited about
sorry that was a long rant no that was that was amazing um yeah like this is the this is the crew
to definitely like nerd out on on any any space related things um yeah that's that's i'm so excited
about the the future of space and especially you know having you know people inspired from all over
the world that want to work together on on different projects it's it's incredible seeing um you know
people jumping into our discord that are just absolutely enthused coming from all types of
skill levels uh from from people that have been in the space industry you know uh decades to people
that are just starting out and um yeah it's it's just incredible the the amount of enthusiasm that's
out there um i i wanted to ask uh may long uh our our chinese elon musk if if he has any questions for
for for for dude perfect as well um and kobe um um could maybe you translate over to to uh may long
yeah yeah okay uh yelon yelon兄弟 in there okay okay oh okay oh okay okay oh okay okay okay
Well, I'll make a translation.
It's very interesting, Elon, his introduction, also his question.
Now, I'll make a translation.
And Elon, his Chinese Elon Musk, he made the first introduction.
And yeah, Kobe, I also recognize you need to check the TikTok of my Elon.
And he said, actually, he has actually a child from a child who wants to go to Spain.
If we had a chance to go to Spain first, he wants to make a real estate, maybe building
And when ordinary people from Earth to moon and every ordinary people could have an apartment
or have a house, something.
And yeah, his question for you is that when you're in space, have you seen really the UFO or something?
Oh, man, how great would that be if I had outside my window, just on my side, when I stuck my GoPro out,
if there was an alien or a UFO, that would truly break the Internet.
No, I wish I could say that I did.
Everybody asked me if I saw stars, and I think the reality is that they were still way above me.
I kept thinking, like, I'd be able to see the outline of Texas or something like that.
But that's not exactly how the world works.
It doesn't look the way it does on a map.
So pretty incredible views.
And yeah, I think one day when you have an apartment or a house up there, we'll all come visit.
Okay, I'll make a translation.
Hey, you know,兄弟,回答就是说,他也听了很多不同的这个,其中不同的人问他问题啊,有没有看到各种星星啊之类的,
然后呢,他看到他那个,他那个太空窗啊,外面啊,看到都是非常的亮啊,当这个德州上面,
然后呢,这个整个都是很亮的,当然星星啊什么都没有看到的,
然后,他说,如果说你这个,这个,你这个非常有趣的想法,
如果你有一天,你在,你在这个月球上啊,如果住了你的房子,你不是开了房地产吗?
Yeah, Elon said he, when he have a chance to build a house in Moon,
he will just give a house to you as a gift.
sorry, he said, yeah, thanks everyone, and also,
and he wish that Moon Dao get more and more better.
And also, one English from him, you know,
typical Elon Ma, I love you.
Yeah, that's, like, a whole new,
if you guys have seen Elon Ma's videos,
he uses, like, a generative AI filter,
I think, to basically look like Elon Ma's.
Like, it's so, so, so accurate.
It's just, it's, like, on another level.
But, Kobe, I need to ask you the very obligatory question,
you know, is the Earth flat?
You know, did you find any hints that it might be flat,
or are you convinced now that it's curved?
You know, was there any doubt in your mind ever?
It felt like an important mission,
very important piece of information to bring back.
And, yeah, guys, it's as round as it gets.
It would have been, man, again,
just like seeing an alien or UFO,
if I could have gone up and said,
holy cow, it's flat, it's freaking flat.
But it's not, it's not, it's round.
I think we can put that one to rest.
But, I mean, if people want to keep talking about it,
you know, eventually somebody else will get to go up
and the flat-earthers can see for themselves.
one thing that we really like to do at Moondao
is, like, citizen science.
And, you know, I think there are tons of people
that have all kinds of crazy ideas
about what's really happening in space.
You know, just being the jurisdiction of nations
and sort of, like, there's a bit of a mistrust now
of institutions in general.
So, you know, it's, part of it's fun.
It's, like, it's real science, right?
You have everyday people and, you know,
you can have someone like you, Kobe,
and, you know, have, like, a real perspective
that isn't, you know, I guess,
associated necessarily with NASA or something like that,
which, for some reason, yeah,
people tend to have a bit of a distrust, you know.
I've had people even ask me, like, you know,
they think that the moon isn't real
or not that it's not real
but that we've never been.
And, you know, it's funny sometimes,
but, you know, it's cool to be able
to have everyday people, you know,
interact with these things.
I got to chime in here quick
because that, to me, is, like, perfect
because, you know, Kobe, like you said,
if you had the opportunity to break the fact
and go, no way the Earth is flat,
like, that would have been the ultimate win,
you know, financially for a channel,
big, you know, big opportunity, obviously.
And that's, to me, one of the things
that I like to bring up when people ask about,
you know, the moon landing,
it was the moon landing thing and stuff.
I love to bring up the fact that the Soviet Union,
you know, the people that the United States
was, quote-unquote, racing to the moon,
they had all opportunities to call, you know,
BS if things weren't correct, you know,
and if things weren't legitimate.
But, unfortunately, you know,
the Soviet Union tracked the Apollo spacecraft
congratulated the United States
of their accomplishments,
and even offered help during Apollo 13
And I think if anyone wanted to call BS
and have the opportunity to, you know,
to say, hey, this is a false claim,
would have been the Soviet Union
but that is not what happened.
And it's just fun to kind of in this new era,
like, more and more people are going to be
seeing exactly what Kobe just witnessed.
I can't speak to the moon landing.
I wasn't there, you know,
but I was one step closer
to seeing the round earth,
You're doing a duty to humanity.
Yep, happy to help, guys.
So, Liang Chi wants to ask another question.
so I'll give you a little bit
about Liangxi's background,
that'd be on our bucket list
something off in the future.
for those that don't know,
but we have a second astronaut
of the Ticket to Space NFT,
it's great to have you here
being here with the community
at me yeah well again um i know that this is this must be like really wild uh for you you know like
you you probably didn't necessarily expect to be selected to to go to space uh we had over 8 000
people that uh were in the running to to be selected um and you know you're you're a father
of three in china and you know i'm curious you know what what was the the feeling when you first
learned about being selected and uh do you have any any any thoughts that you want to ask uh kobe
who's already done the the experience um you know i i have so many questions for you yen um
maybe balak yeah could you thank you yeah okay yeah no problem
对就是 uh jingga就是问你是三个孩子的父亲然后呢从这个八百多个
nft 当中然后呢选择了你然后呢你是一个这个什么样的呃
什么样的这个呃心情然后呢被选中然后呢包括你有没有想问这个我们呃
呃我想问可比几个问题吧就比如说在起飞的时候就是会有什么样的感觉就是会不会就是刺激到自己
比如说吐了之类的或者紧张的那个突然之间失禁啊会有这种情况
推特的时候吧我看见好多人at我告诉我中了一个什么蓝色起源的
我当时有点懵你知道吧一直就是也没反应过来这是什么事
two or three more questions
is the his first you know
we'll hop right into it I
prepared for Yan and then
rest of the community and
whole time being selected
to go into outer space so
their reaction to hearing
yes yes also first he he told uh his wife and he the reaction from his wife that
the yankojin got sick something is sick so no one believed him and also he also tell his friends
or the family members yeah no one believed no one believed him at the first moment every
people said oh maybe maybe yankojin is is sick and need to take some medicine or something so
yeah actually at the first time no one no one family friends no one believed him
oh wow that's so funny um yeah i imagine you know it's probably hard for him to believe and then
he tells his friends and and he says that yeah it was uh some organization online that chose me to
go into space um i can only imagine um i want to ask yan also you know so he's he's going to be an
inspiration to to china being one of the first civilians that goes into space and um you know
is there anything that you'd like to tell the the people in china um about uh you know anything
you know what what what what message do you have for them okay uh下一个问题就是
均哥因为你是第一个普通人去太空然后呢这个事情会激利很多人
然后呢这个时候呢你想对于这个中国中国人啊说一些什么
这个本身说这个中国人上太空吧可能是民间的可能是第一个人然后呢怎么说太太空旅行吧平民化吧本来也是可能中国未来几十年也在重点关注的领域
我也挺高兴能成为这个第一个中国的民间资格兰员吧算是
然后呢这个去中心化组织吧也能来实现很多人那种梦想 Bor passageway Nintendo 慢慢的发展可能后面
Okay, yeah, the answer from Yan Keqing is that he's the first, we see ordinary people
to go to space and which means a lot to him and also as normally it can be done or can
it be achieved by ordinary people but yeah, but Moon Dao make it happen. This is also I think the
power of a Dao decentralized organization, an autonomous organization and yeah, could make it
happen. He believed that and yeah later more and more and also Chinese ordinary people may have a
change and to go to space, yeah. Absolutely, yeah, thank you, thank you Yan. Another question
that I have too is, how do you feel about going on an American rocket? So from what I understand,
you have never been to the USA and I'm curious, what is something you'd like to do when you come
to the US? And is there anything in particular that you have, you know, you want to see or
experience when you're here? And yeah, what, how do you feel about sort of like the relationship
between China and the United States? And, and what do you think the impact will be of your flight in
in the US? Um, no, that's, that's a lot of questions, but it's, it's a very historic moment really.
Yeah, it's, yeah, it's a historic moment and a lot of questions. I make one by one.
And, uh, uh, uh, yeah, 嗯, this question,
it was, it was, it was, it did, it was, uh, um,
I said first, first, the first question, um, uh, you go to America,
you, if you were going to the United States, its experience?
And then, uh, save everything. A split that every responsibility for me
second question, the second question is, there has been never gone to the United States because
upper 초ия which is, uh, um, you have any idea that you want to see in the US,
Scout Earth, uh, of course a special content for all of us. And then the third question is,
I actually answer one by one
The first is that he's feeling
As ordinary Chinese people
And all who can fly to this American rocket
Is definitely something of proud of something
It's a very interesting answer
He said the first thing is that
And it would be also cool to meet
To reach some US wine manufacturer
To try different wines in US
He'll have the opportunity to meet
A lot of the Mundao folks
And try some of the wines up here
Seeing the Dude Perfect video
Perspective on the flight at all
If it changed anything about
If that video had any impact
His daughters probably saw it too
There is a place where I didn't hear it very clearly
So I can find it a long time
If you have seen the perfect video
What is the feeling of what is going on?
Because you might be able to fly
And then you will be able to fly
And then you will be able to change your view
What is your view of your family?
Yeah, it's an interesting answer
Look at the video from Dude Perfect
It's really cool and amazing video
That is really unbelievable
And it's real emotion that he just said one Chinese word
Is maybe you can also learn
I've heard this word before
Doesn't it translate into
I think it translates into something
I will say that in every public
Yeah, Chinese expressions are awesome
My last question to you, Yan
And then we'll open it up to the rest of the community
And people here on stage asking questions
What have you been doing to prepare for the flight?
I guess walk us through your mental state
And what you've been going through at the moment
And, you know, are you actively sort of like preparing?
Or is it something that's kind of far off?
And you're, you know, it's not so real yet?
He's now got the last question
The last question is Jyn哥
Is there a lot of questions
For the sun or for the sun?
Or are you going to do some
Or are you going to do some
Or are you going to do some
Or are you going to do some
And after the confirmation
what we've been able to do
I don't mean to cut you off
but for the people who speak English
At the people who speak English
I think we've been a bit lost
what Silvery has been saying
and, you know, just give some context for the people here.
还是你能用英语自我介绍一下我们的主唱想了解一下你?
Hi, everyone. I'm a channeler.
But when I'm moving to the U.S.,
I do a lot of research about how to do the real DAO.
So the last month I focused the Ethereum, the Ethereum-POW, the SOAR.
So I hope you guys know Ethereum-POW.
And I want to know the MoNDAO, what exactly is it?
Yeah, MoNDAO is aiming to decentralize access to space.
And we are basically on the forefront of the DAO movement.
We're the biggest DAO that is focused on space.
Probably one of the biggest DAOs in general
that are not financially focused.
So, yeah, we're community first
and very, very, very transparent.
Probably one of the most transparent organizations of all time, really.
You can see all of our transactions in and out of the Treasury.
All our Discord chats are open to the public.
And that's where we do all of our work, out in the open.
Because we believe that the state of information
should be open and transparent to all the community members.
And so, the group can always make the best decisions
about things that are going on.
Chandler, I have a question for you.
You know, the ETH POW fork was very, very controversial.
And a lot of people in the Ethereum community felt as though,
you know, it's a bit of a, you know,
not a step in the wrong direction or anything like that.
But it was, you know, I think widely regarded
as a massive split in the philosophy, I suppose, of Ethereum.
And, you know, what motivated you to, you know,
And are there philosophical underpinnings to what you're doing?
Or is it more of a last stand of the miners
and trying to retain their profits?
So, first thing, the Ethereum is a very good thing.
because I'm a miner in 2018.
And I'm personally mining the 200,000 of the ETH.
Ethereum, you know, 2016,
I forked Ethereum, the classic, ETC.
Because this is a decentralized community,
you can do whatever you want
because it's a public chain.
It's a lot of miner right now,
because of the more decentralized community.
I think both are a good idea.
It's kind of an early job to everybody
to make more money for everybody.
So, everybody happy on the fork, you know.
ETHW has 100 projects working on that.
they have kind of a compound,
They have a lot of the NFT marketplace.
It has six NFT marketplace.
It's a lot of the NFT projected on that,
and some of them the 1,000X.
So, it's a lot of the projects
everything on the ETHW is the same,
the first ETHW blockchain.
So, everything that just keep going,
nothing changed, you know.
all for the Ethereum community,
I think that they're growing better and better.
And all the Ethereum community growing.
the developer helping each other
to building their user base.
So, now a lot of the people
want to know a detail about
what exactly the roadmap,
what exactly this chain will be growing
is that possible that ETHW
It's definitely yes, yes,
because of the only one month,
it's a bear market, right?
and a very smart developer.
Vitalik personally thinks
that GatenFi is the future
because a lot of the Chinese developers
are working on the GatenFi,
are working on a game in China,
they're moving to the Web 3.
A lot of Chinese developers
I hope you guys know this.
we ask Yan some more questions.
this is one of his biggest,
Yan about a question that
I'll try to make it a little bit.
is also in the same time,
if we can talk to each other
about what we're talking about,
if we can talk to each other
we can talk to each other
And I'm living in Los Gatos.
Everybody likes this idea.
if you were the first Chinese
我很想知道的是这个上太空只是上去以后就马上下来了还是在上面上空间站
这是第一个 第二个上去就是一下子就像发二低脚似的上去然后下来以后还是要做一些科研在上面做一些科研活动
因为出梦嘛咱们说是月球这件事情可不可以在上面开发一个就是目的项目
我就想让我死了以后压成一颗钻石然后往那月球上一扔不是一扔嘛一埋啊
我觉得这个牛逼这我很早以前的一个想法好说完了我们继续
第一个问题就是他是到太空第一个是跟蓝色学院那个Lew Shepard号上太空
然后我们以后的话你刚刚说到那个月球的那个项目就我们最终的目的
就是我不知道保安有没有了解那个关于那个就是SpaceX上面
他有一个航班叫Starship嘛 就我们以后就是往着这个目标去募资也好
跟那个他们购买这个船票也好 因为我们最终募到的目标就是登陆月球
不管以什么方式 最终的目的就是这样子 让更多人的能够更加比如说不要说就让普通人也能参入到这个太空的这些比较就普通人不敢想象的项目里面 对
很好很好 那个Moreship是不是已经有一个日本的日本的首付
对 他选了全球选了五个人是吧 还六个人一起跟他上去的
对 Starship呢是大概有就我们得知的信息是有一百个座位了
但是他我不知道他公开因为他很大嘛 我不知道他现在这个有没有改
太好了 还有问题就是说去月球的当前全人类现在除了美国登月以外 后来就再也没消息了
具体的就是这个timeline就是什么时候能真正的下一个人类登上月球
就我据我了解我们如果最近根据SpaceX的那个销售团队跟我们讲的那个
跟我们讲的Rough就是大概的时间就是2024到2025它会有一个还月
We're planning to end this in 15 minutes
But I'm opening up to the community to ask you or Yanke a dream question
And I will do the challenge
Yeah sorry I've been out of the loop
But I think it's great to have you know Yan and you guys speak in your own language
And yeah it's great I think you know Moondao is a place where we're open to multiple types of communities and different people that speak different languages so yeah it's great but I've been out of the loop I have no idea
You should take a taste of Chinese lesson right?
Should we should we just select people up from the audience?
Feel free to request and jump up on here and you can ask Yan a question or ask a question about Moondao
Yeah feel free to request
Are you randomly select man?
In the meantime too I want to highlight
You know if you want to learn more about Moondao you can go to Moondao.com
And you'll see all of our documentation all of the stuff that we're working on
And we have various translations in the different languages
So we have a Chinese translation and I believe Spanish translation as well
We should answer most of the questions in the documentation
I want to ask you to ask our next flight
Is this time at what time?
You don't need to answer this question
俊哥的话,如果接下来去准备这个飞行的话,除了希望带上家人,还有其他的一些心愿吗?
我觉得带上家庭应该就可以吧,再有其他心愿,你是指哪方面心愿呢?
就是在美国的话,就是在这个飞行还有什么特别的期待吗?
我倒是挺想上去以后看看能不能拍照之类的,或者说能带一些标志物上去啊,这个现在我也不确定它这个行程是同意,可以这样的吧,现在也不确定
Barney, do you want to select someone else up from the audience?
Feel free to ask your question
这个,你们这个,这个东西把这个,人送往月球去,然后这个是寄出的形式吗?
说他这个费用,把这个,月球去,他这个费用是谁出啊?
嗯,就我们会有啊,比如说社区里面会啊,本来我们是募捐那个我们的啊,就是我们的Governance Token,然后我们本来国库会有一笔钱,然后我们会打算进行第二论的融资去募集这些钱,然后我们有一些项目是能够啊,产生那个收益的国库,对,对。
那你们做这个事情的话,意义是一个什么样的意义呢?有个什么意义?然后,嗯,这个意义其实啊,其实这个理念是比较大的,就,就拿我自己来说,我本来就是一个很普通,很普通的一个人,就在加密货币圈子里面就摸爬滚打了几年,然后你像我这种人,如果没有闷到这个项目,你觉得我这辈子会看得到这个火箭吗?
或者会参与到制造卫星这个项目里面吗?我们碰到的最大的目标就是让普通人能够很简单,很容易,比如说你参加到Discord里面,你就能观察得到整个我们建设,比如说我们以后有卫星项目啊,或者送人上太空啊,再比如说我们会造火箭啊,在将来,那我们普通人这些是你永远都没法触碰的东西,
嗯,我们这个项目的,现在我们在申请一个叫马赛寻岛的一个DAO的一个公司,我们现在是可以对外说是一个非盈利组织,我们可以通过募捐去获得我们的那个资金,然后我们自己本身就会有一些卫星项目,比如说发射商业卫星,
就是说你们后期要做一些商业的东西,就是说发射商业卫星趋势吗?
对,对,各种,就比如说我们之前,啊,社区里面有个比较好的proposal,就比如说我们要做一个太空的广告版,那我们广告版是不是在可以在太空帮别人卖广告,对,然后,呃,我们,呃,你还有问题吗?我们要,啊,让更多人能够问题,问题比较晚了,嗯,好吧,好吧,嗯,嗯,啊,
Should we invite Fabian, Pablo?
Um, yeah, we can, I, I, yeah, if he wants to come up here, you can request.
Um, I also see a Pentakill from, from our community audience as well, he's requesting.
Also, I saw your dad in the audience, Pablo.
Okay, okay, thank you, Pablo.
Uh, I just want to ask you to ask that, that, that, Jinger.
Because it's the first time, so long, I've always been able to do it from the first time, I've been able to do it from the first time, but just like, it's the first time.
Uh, Jinger, you know, just like, if you were a former member of China, especially in China and then have a like,
But, yeah, thank you, Barney, for leading the conversation.
And thanks to everyone here for participating.
It's awesome to see all you guys here.
Do you have any questions to ask our external, like the second one,
You're going to be in the US and see you very soon, man.
Yeah, I guess, actually, I'm actually filling out my guild application here
I'm wondering if Yang Ke Shen is also going to be part of one of our guilds.
Well, that's a cool idea.
Maybe you can ask him, like, after this call.
Yeah, we could ask him right now, you know.
Yeah, and maybe also explain in English and Chinese what the guilds are.
I can do a quick explanation of the guilds.
But, yeah, maybe explain to Yang what the guild is
and if he'd be interested in working in one of them.
Okay, so Yang Ke-Jun said that he will be very, like, happy to do it
because he, you know, had a lot of free time by himself, right now.
Yeah, and actually already we, because Yang Ke-Jun thinks it's amazing
and actually we are thinking about to set up a project
with Yang Ke-Jun together for our second national.
Maybe I'll present in this week's leadership meeting.
Yeah, and for, I guess, the English speakers that are in the audience,
the guilds are basically, like, inside of Mundao, it's the first step.
Well, for the community, all of our projects, basically,
they have budgets where they will send bounties out to the community
and it's a great way to get onboarded and to understand more about what we're doing.
So definitely, if you want to get involved in Mundao, that's the place to start.
And you can apply to a guild at moondao.com slash contribute.
Okay, so I saw Lorty's come out on stage.
Do you want to say something, Lorty?
Yeah, I have a question for our astronaut.
Maybe it was asked already, but I didn't understand, because it doesn't Chinese.
But what do your kids think about you becoming an astronaut and going to space?
Well, I don't know if you guys are watching them.
Well, I didn't know you were on a ship, but I didn't know you were on a ship.
Well, I didn't know you were on a ship.
I didn't know you were on a ship.
He said that, like, his kids really, like, excited, you know, to him
become an astronaut and, like, ask him every day, oh, when are you going to the space?
And because, you know, the kids love the Superman movie, you know?
I mean, it's very crazy that, you know, if, you know, my father told me that he's going
to go to space, I'm going to be crazy, you know?
It's not Superman, it's Super Yen now.
Should we invite one last audience to come up today to ask questions or we just close
Or maybe we can invite your father.
Yeah, let's do one more question from the audience.
Yeah, if anyone wants to request, we'll select someone at random.
I have some quite a problem to, like, invite people.
Actually, I can't invite any more people to join.
I'll pick someone at random.
I have a problem to invite people.
Mayfly, the floor is yours.
You have a question for Yen or a question about Mundao.
So, before you said that you have to go on the moon.
You said that you have to go on the moon.
Then you said you have to go on the moon.
And what is you using the way to believe them?
Wow, this is a very good question. I want to translate this.
I want to find out that this is a very good question.
This is a very good question.
So Mayfine asking Yang Ke-Chun, because Yang Ke-Chun the first time telling his family,
like he going to space and the family said,
Oh, you are like crazy or you know something.
And he's asking about how Yang Ke-Chun convinced his family about he actually going to space.
Ke-Chun, you can answer this question.
This is because I was looking at the Twitter.
It wasn't there when I bought a ticket.
There was a link between the two tickets.
It was just the two tickets.
And in the 8th of the month, this is already flying.
So, I want them to look at the ticket.
或者你的老婆跟小孩还是没那么担心你的人生安全问题,
all over the world and uh we're in fact we we hope that we uh you know uh basically reach places
that we haven't reached before uh so if you're from a country that that isn't represented you
know uh hop in and and we'll we'll make space for you and and for for people you know that that
maybe speak your language or where you're from uh to make sure that you feel welcome and included
um you know not a lot of countries all over the world they they don't have space programs but they
they have people that are very very fascinated and enthusiastic about space so what what we're
trying to do really is make space accessible to people from all over the world and um to give
them real power and and how you know the the future outcomes of the the organization uh happen so
basically if you're part of our organization then you'll have a control and a vote on how we spend
all of our finances so it's uh it's a very new type of organization and and we hope you get involved
yeah also he will shout out to the you know whole mundao family to make this ama happen like
balak pentakil silver and ziotak gang and loretis to you know make this happen and uh yeah let's just
you know stay tuned for mundao and uh we will make this community like the strongest ever can be
awesome thank you so much barney yeah yeah huge love out to the mundao community um so much has
gone into uh making this moment possible so thank you so much to everyone thank you to yan our next
astronaut who will be representing mundao and china and uh super excited to meet you yan uh when you come
over to the united states super excited to you know send you into space and then hear all of your
thoughts when you come back down uh thank you so much everyone yeah all right let's let's close this