Shadowing Practice: Possible Florida Starship? - Starbase Summary - Learn English Speaking with Video

All right, y 'all, it's time to get back in the swing of things here

after Flight 14 went all the way to orbit as we march towards Flight 15.

It's a Starbase summary, and this week we've got some Pad 1 OLM work proceeding forward.

The Gigabay, nice, your speed's zero, love it.

The bridge crane there across the middle in the Gigabay continues forward, and some pipe gets laid out at the port connector construction.

Again, this is off Highway 4 over near Brownsville wow look at all

that uh is it that's technically cribbing

when you're using oh my gosh to stay out of the mud

if you haven't picked up one of your flight 14 shirts

yet commemorating orbit bones there showing it off over at the

highway site there's the pad two dance floor that's dance floor

i don't know it's more of a dance plug does

that get us into territory we should probably stay away from probably

but uh as we talked about before the construction that goes into the middle You can't really get a lift up underneath.

You can't roll a taco stand or anything underneath the pad because of the ramps and the flame trench, the diverters, and that sort of stuff.

So you put it in from the top.

It's got the pads that sort of hold it up

and then work areas so you can get to the inside of the over -the -launch mount there on Pad 2.

Pad 2's chopsticks are here as well.

Are we doing some inspections?

Looks like we're maybe taking pictures of things there.

Or are we looking for damage or something like that after launch?

Why is this important?

And, well, pretty likely, I think, that we are all hoping for a catch here at the tower during Flight 15.

Not confirmed, but that's what we're hoping that we're all seeing.

We're good on the actuators again.

We've seen an awful lot of work on these actuators.

Like, are they going bad?

Do they not like the forces?

Is there something about the thermal expansion, like you hit them with the rocket exhaust or rocket exhaust in the vicinity?

I don't know, but we keep seeing them doing a lot of work on those hydraulic rams

that they use to open and close the chopsticks.

Over at Pad 1, I was going to make a joke about finally we can refer to it as the orbital launch mount.

Yeah, but that was Pad 2.

Pad 2 gets that credit.

It's like christening a ship, right?

You don't get to call it the orbital launch mount until you, like, break a champagne bottle over the front of it.

Champagne bottle, not enough for a structure of this size.

Well, actually, ocean -going ships are way bigger than anything SpaceX has ever built.

Whatever.

Instead of breaking a bottle of champagne over it, you hit it with the exhaust from 33 Raptors, and that christens it as an origin.

Well, even that doesn't work.

Like, the Raptors have to result in the payload going all the way to...

Look, it's complicated, all right?

Y 'all tell me what you think the proper christening process

for a launch pad should be for it to earn the

rightful name of Orbital Launch Mount right bunch of miscellaneous work

sort of going on over there you can see they're still working they've got

that gantry structure sort of opened up they haven't up armored it i guess armored it in the first place

or put the cladding on the sides of it or anything like

that still an awful lot of work to do over on pad one

so if you were interested in a double catch

if that's even a possibility for flight 15 i think uh we're really sort of leaning towards

if that is a possibility it and i'm not even saying

that it is i think maybe spacex really wants to do

that but there's a long way between i love you

and i do um you would probably see a booster come back

and get caught on pad two

and then the ship living in orbit for some amount of time as they de -stack

and get the booster out of the way and

if it was even a thing the ship would most likely come back down to pad two

and get caught in the same place oh no kidding look at this gauge caught a water spout.

I guess they were out there working in the field.

Gage and Dan and Jerry are all out there doing some operational work in between.

Hey, we're driving on the beach.

Look at this.

This is going to be from the South Padre side because the gulf's on your left and lands on your right.

So you're driving from the Southern South Padre jetty back down south.

So Mexico is behind this.

And if you kept going, you would end up at the Rio Grande.

But there's the ASU you can see

and of course you saw the two pads there as well

nice that's a cool treat all right tankers unloading at the

tank farm we got caesar driving by here it looks like

quite a bit of vehicles well i say quite a bit

i guess it's four vehicles it's not really quite a bit but

still i will say that

that is one of the most inefficient whoa no way those are the star links

that were launched on flight 14 going over starbase they have little trails

because of the encoding artifact and the low light camera um no we put i know

that we pointed a bunch of cameras towards the sky in the current sort of trajectories

and we didn't know if we were going to catch it or or not.

But looky there!

How cool was that?

Nice!

A generic shot over the flats at the production site, whatever.

Nose cone by the office building.

This has been used to test TPS, is what the sign says.

You can see, there's some TPS on it.

A bunch of little pins sticking out of it as well there.

Once again, our speed is zero.

Looks like Caesar has pulled over to the side of the road here to take the shot of the Gigabay.

That's a pretty cool shot of the Gigabay with the setting sun sort of reflecting on the bottom of it.

It looks like one of the big panels that they used to pick up, or I guess the spreaders that they used to pick up

and control the panels while they clad it onto the world's largest easy -bake oven.

You put your staff, your workers in there, you paint the outside black, you shine the South Texas sun on it, and we'll see how that goes for them.

I imagine it's going to be pretty warm, or at least it's going to cost some electricity to keep that thing cooled down.

It's like style over function here with SpaceX.

I am still a little bit flabbergasted that they painted that building black.

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Bridge can't assemble.

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Oh, so down at the bottom, you can see crossing the aisle there.

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Here we go.

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We're going to punch in a lot of control systems and stuff on there, but that's the bridge crane.

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Of course, it needs to go up to the top and then right on rails at the top so that it's useful.

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But it looks like they're down here at ground level doing a lot of preparation on it.

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Is that the block?

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That really does look like it might be the block and the cable there that's maybe being reaved right now.

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interesting oh there we go we got ship 43 in mega

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bay 2 back there as well a lot of speculation on

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that if you sort of uh go down the road

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and you just count like you know one ship two ship three ship there is some speculation

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that possibly that ship ends up in florida at some point

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right so i don't know for sure if that's really a thing

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that we would say i don't know if we're quite there yet

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and it's just sort of guessed it's like well

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if you do it in orbit and you or in order

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and you say well this ship then that ship then

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that ship and the order that they're sort of built

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and then the order of missions we'll come back to

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that let's say we'll come back to

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that right it's got some valve work there this is over

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at the uh sanchez side of obviously yeah it's a1 we've

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got some pivot arm related stuff here see i was talking about

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will the ship end up back at cape canaveral at some

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point that's more miscellaneous parts looks like you bolt it down

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and then that little uh arm circle cylinder thing wants to say straight

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up oh there's that um y 'all know

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that there was an art group that came out there

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and built this statue the prometheus statue this is not officially

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a spacex thing uh i apologize i don't really know how

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to talk about them they're they're an art group like a group of artists foundryists i don't know

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that that deal in things like this

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and they made this big statue of sort of prometheus stealing

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fire it's offering fire back to the gods holding fire up

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so he doesn't get burned

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but it looks like could drip on him especially since he

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doesn't have like any flame retardant clothing on at least his top you wouldn't want

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that torch to drip on your bare skin i don't know i guess

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when prometheus was around stealing fire from the gods osha wasn't really a thing

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but you know you do you prometheus um we'll see i don't know what's going to end up with

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that thing but it looks like it got

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verticated so over here at the area i've seen an awful lot of comments down here uh data center

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potentially right there's all sorts of uh documents

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that have been filed for the construction here we've got jerry out there

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so jerry's been doing sort of regular drone flights to sort

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of see things going forwards remember we got all the little tonka trucks driving around last time the temporary roads

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that they've put in new news they've actually started standing this

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thing up i guess it's not particularly new this is maybe

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some of the oldest news was five six days ago

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that this started happening but uh wasting no time like the whole slab's not even poured yet

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and they're already standing up the other end of the building there's a pipe laying operation

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interesting it's not like a water pipe there are those welding units oh

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that has like a little sunshade looking thing

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and do those things drive down the end and oh i gotta go look at those

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there's a little pipe cranes i've seen a lot of those

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pipe cranes working on the other side over by the LNG plant.

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It looks like we're putting some dirt in on top of it.

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I really want to go.

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It was tough to see from the aerial view, but those look like things that actually construct the pipe from its individual pipe units.

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In any event, hey, folks, it's the Starbase summary.

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Like I said, back into the normal swing of things out here at Starbase.

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We'll be standing by for information on Flight 15.

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That's my name there, John.

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If I respond to you down in the comments, I'll say Das.

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That's my nickname.

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But I appreciate y 'all watching, and we will see you nerds later.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 166 sentences and 1970 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:02. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pipe noun	/ˈpaɪp/	A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
mount verb	/maʊnt/	To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
orbit noun	/ˈɔɹ.bɪt/	An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
crane noun	/kɹeɪn/	Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
awful adjective	/ˈɔːfʊl/	Very bad.
statue noun	/ˈstæt͡ʃu/	A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
champagne noun	/ʃæmˈpeɪn/	A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.
exhaust verb	/ɪɡˈzɔst/	To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.
orbital adjective	/ɔɹ.bət.l̩/	Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
steal verb	/stiːl/	To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
summary noun	/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/	An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
swing verb	/ˈswɪŋ/	To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
rocket noun	/ˈɹɑk.ɪt/	A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light…
underneath adverb	/ˌʌndɚˈniθ/	Below; in a place beneath.
flame noun	/fleɪm/	The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
come back verb		To return to a place.
back down verb		To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
cool down verb	/kuːl ˈdaʊn/	To become cooler; to be reduced in temperature.
drive down verb		To cause or force a price, quantity, rate, etc. to decrease.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
go down verb		To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you kept going, you would end
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't picked · We've seen · has ever built
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were launched · being reaved · have been filed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 54 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, we're, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, thermal /ˈθɜːməl/, clothe /ˈkloʊð/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, operational /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/
Long words — get the stress right: speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pipe, mount, orbit.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?