a few stretched starships on the moon on mars and we already get a giant base with living space for dozens of people per ship that is why this upgraded starship is a very very big deal and contrary to regular youtube clickbait headlines where every day something happens that changes everything this indeed really does change everything the new stretched starship is really a game changer for our future in space and please subscribe to our channel here especially now that we are almost at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN subscribers we can do it together we can reach those NUMBER_TOKENk thank you very much in advance for your support and now to china chinese foreign ministry spokesman zhao lizian said at a routine conference on december NUMBER_TOKENth that china notified the united nations on december NUMBER_TOKENrd in form of a document about two quote close encounters end quote this year between spacex's starling satellites and china's space station tiangong the space station then supposedly had to take evasive maneuvers on july NUMBER_TOKENst and october NUMBER_TOKENst to avoid collisions with the satellites this was widely shown on china's propaganda i mean sorry i meant on china state media cctv where a news anchor said that quote the united states is bringing its double standards into outer space the u.s government also bears responsibility they have caused severe threat to the lives and safety of other countries astronauts end quote of course this created quite some outrage with people reacting by calling to boycott tesla on chinese social media so what is behind this well we know that china and the usa are whether we wanted or not already engaged in a fierce competition or in a cold war NUMBER_TOKEN like situation and china has been often accused by the u.s and actually other western countries of acting irresponsibly with their rocket launches for example only in may NUMBER_TOKEN a launch from a chinese law march NUMBER_TOKENb rocket caused debris from that rocket to fall into the indian ocean not far from populated islands in NUMBER_TOKEN a similar situation where debris from a chinese long march NUMBER_TOKENb fell on the ivory coast so on land even damaging some buildings luckily nobody was injured or killed so i personally think that this is the classic blame game china was blamed for being irresponsible which in that case is absolutely hundred percent true they really were and are irresponsible with their rocket launches and now of course they also want to blame the us unfortunately now elon musk is caught between the front lines with starlink now we don't know if the near collision incident really took place and if it did you can be sure that it has been painted in a quite exaggerated light the iss for example never reported a dangerous situation with the starling satellites so you know just saying exaggeration might certainly be involved here it will be interesting to see if this really will have an impact on sales of tesla in china of course china wants to push their own domestic electric car companies so this is a convenient excuse to drag elon musk and tesla into the dirt elon responded to the incident that quote tens of billions encode of satellites could be accommodated in low earth orbit without problems he said more precisely that quote space is extremely enormous and satellites are very tiny this is not some situation where we are effectively blocking others in any
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