Re: OT?: Musk: We are going straight to Mars

On a sunny day (Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:52:12 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
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On 5/01/2025 7:40 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 5 Jan 2025 06:12:18 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Jasen Betts
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On 2025-01-04, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.”
What to make of Musk's comments that are critical of NASA's lunar plans?
  https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/elon-musk-were-going-straight-to-mars-the-moon-is-a-distraction/

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Musk seems promising, but he has a history of not delivering.

 
SpaceX, Tesla, X, Startlink...

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What Musk did to Twitter while he was renaming "X" didn't add to it's value.
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"The Washington Post reported that the company had lost $24 billion in
equity value, "a vaporization of wealth that has little parallel outside
the realm of economic or industry-specific crashes, or devastating
corporate scandals.""

It depends, I was thinking the same thing when he took over the thing

But now speculations go that it may merge with Truth-Social (Trump's platform)
 https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/trump-musk-social-media-truth-social-x-alliance/
and that gives him all Republican advertisers begging to use it.
That is half or more of America.
We will see where it goes!

SpaceX also went almost bankrupt testing, and look now...

And there is AI, Musk has been talking to many people...

Also he has Neuralink....
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink