Valuetainment traces Tesla's Roadster thrusters back to Apollo
A fast-starting podcast Short looks beneath the airborne spectacle, explaining suction, sideways thrust and a spacecraft connection.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 298,356 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (20,088).
Tesla Just Put Rocket Technology In A Car
The explanation starts underneath the car, not under the hood. In Valuetainment's "Tesla Just Put Rocket Technology In A Car," a podcast commentator describes suction holding the Roadster against a surface before moving on to the gas jets that help it rotate.
The Short drew roughly 173,000 views in ten hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for that format. A longer Roadster discussion posted the same day is also running far above its usual start, giving Valuetainment two unusually strong uploads about the demonstration.
This clip pairs the commentary with animated illustrations, including a car driving upside down. The speaker explains how cold gas thrusters push sideways to turn the vehicle, then compares their function with the reaction control systems aboard the Apollo command module and Space Shuttle. A spacecraft thruster diagram makes the connection explicit: the subject isn't just going fast, but controlling which way a vehicle points.
Viewers bring the explanation back to everyday imagination. One invokes The Jetsons; another recalls initially thinking the live demonstration wasn't real. Others ask what airborne maneuvering would mean around power cables, trees and delivery drones. For all the spacecraft references, the questions return to what happens when this technology meets an ordinary street.
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What viewers say
The Jetsons had this decades ago 😅
@Gray-n5xSee it on YouTubeMy wife and I watched this live and legit thought this was fake.
@coopercarguySee it on YouTubeGravity tho. That's what makes it cool down here on earth.
@tlip3480See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Valuetainment
- Subscribers
- 7,160,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,990,579
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,066,625 (on a normal day: 1,018,016)
- Video published
- October 16, 2026
- Video views so far
- 173,143 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 298,356
The numbers
The Roadster Short has already exceeded Valuetainment's usual first-day Shorts audience. The longer discussion is also having an unusually strong start for its format.
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