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Austin Vernon

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“then the chips are a problem there's like this organization called rusi i think they're in in the uk but they've been tearing down like all these russian weapons they found in ukraine and they all have american ships in them so you know technically we're supposed to like they're not supposed to be able to get these chips and you know russia can't make a lot of its own chips and especially not this specialized kind you might want for guided weapons So they'd been somehow smuggling in chips from Americans to make their advanced weapons.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So JDN is joint direct attack mission. So, what we do is we took all our Vietnam surplus bonds and we put this little fin kid on it and it cost like 20,000 bucks, which is cheap for a weapon because it... The actual bond costs like, I don't know, $3,000. Then you it turns it into a guided weapon that before you were probably lucky to get within 500 meters of a target. Now you can get it in with like two meters. So the number of missions you have to do with your planes and all that goes down by like orders of magnitude. It's an absolutely huge advantage in logistics and just how much firepower you can put on a target. We didn't even have to make new bonds. We just put these kits on all our old bonds.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so the Starship gives you just like a platform to deliver. You could pit JDANS in a shroud or you could just have the iron unguided kinetic projectiles. And it just becomes impossible for, you know, a ship to launch missiles to intercept yours if your cost is so low. You can just overwhelm them.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ends up being like when you go orbital, it takes a lot to get to orbit, but then once you're in orbit, your fuel consumption is pretty good. So over long distances, it has a lot of advantage. That's why the point-to-point works for the longer distances. There's really a sweet spot with these weapons where you want it to be pretty accurate, but you also want it to be cheap. Like you're seeing that problem with like Russia right now is they have some fancy parade style weapons that are really expensive like multi-billion dollar cruise missiles, but they're missing that $5,000 guided artillery shell or like that, you know, like $20,000 JDAM that you can just like put massive or the, you know, the multiple launch rocket system guided rockets. They're really like short on all those because I think they had just had like a limited amount of chips they could get from the US into Russia to make these advanced weapons.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How will regular conventional ballistic weapons are extremely expensive? This is more like a bomb truck, you know, but it's even like usually we think of like B52 as the bomb truck and this could be even cheaper than the B52 delivering just like mass on target when you think about how expensive it is to fly B52 from like Barksdale and Louisiana all the way across the world you can do it from South Texas or Florida with the starship and get more missions per day in the fuel.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think the main thing with Starship is like it's You're taking a technology and you're making in about a hundred times cheaper for cargo and a thousand times cheaper for people. So, when things like that happen that drastically, you're just looking at huge changes. And it's really hard to anticipate what some of those can be from the changes that drastic. So I think there's like a lot of moon-based, Mars-based stuff that doesn't really catch the regular public's eye. And I think they also have trouble imagining some of the point-to-point travel that could be possible. But as far as you start talking about it, like as a weapon. And I think that's... It lets people know they should be paying attention to this technology, and we certainly do not want to be.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think he posted a tweet that said, you know, like, I don't know who this guy is or like if he's credible at all, but his stuff sure is interesting. That really made me laugh. It was hilarious. It just doesn't seem necessary. I think. Fine with my ideas being well known and communicating, but I have less desire to be personally famous.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Degree is in chemical engineering, and I'm kind of like a life long love of engineering. Also, things like Toyota production system and stuff like that. And I've worked as Chemical engineer, like in a large processing facility. I've done a lot of Petroleum Engineering. Let's see. And then now, you know, I taught myself how to write software and now I'm working on kind of like more research, early commercialization of CO2 electrolysis.”
2022-09-08 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source