It’s so nice to see Donald Trump of all people taking in a homeless guy.
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“Making it a true family affair” because while Musk has over a dozen kids, only his mother has any emotional relevance to him. 
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That’s the whole fucking point of him backing Trump and setting up this “department” in the first place… The entire fucking administration is going to be ONE BIG CONFLICT OF INTEREST!!!
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Right? It seems bloody obvious that grifters gonna grift. But not, I guess, to people who only pay any attention at all to politics one day every four years.
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For real… I’m glad that they are reporting on it, but come on! Anyone paying any sort of attention COULD have foreseen this and reported on such possibilities prior to the election…
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It’s the same reason Ramaswamy is a part of it, too. Remember, Ramaswamy’s business involves purchasing the IP of drugs that Big Pharma couldn’t get FDA approval on for cheap, and then getting approval on them and making a shitload of profit. So far, it’s been unsuccessful because he hasn’t been able to get FDA approval on any of the drugs he’s bought. His entire business model needs the FDA to be either eliminated entirely, or at least weakened, so that he can get his drugs to market. If this actually happens, expect a Thalidomide level drug disaster within 5 years.
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“Not for the faint of heart,” he added at the time. “Good chance you’ll die. And it’s going to be tough, tough going, but it’ll be pretty glorious if it works out.”
“May I congratulate you? You are a psychotic genius! You have done a most complete job! The task of projecting your psychotic image life into the mind of another via telepathy and keeping the hallucinations from becoming sensually weaker is almost impossible. Those people in the House usually concentrate on visuals or, at the most, visuals and auditory fantasies combined. You have balanced the whole conglomeration! Your insanity is beautifully complete!”
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If Musk wants to go to Mars so badly, he should go himself.
Maybe if somebody sets it up as an ego-boosting thing, “be the first man on Mars,” they could convince him?
(I know, he probably won’t do it, but it’s such a nice thought.)
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“Mars colonization may be viable beyond our lifetimes, but not now.
If you do want to supplant your science fiction fantasies - go read Kim stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. It’s probably the best science fiction on space settlement ever written.
And if you want to simulate what living on Musk City would be like - play Bioshock.”
Paul, the Pressure-Fed Astronaut, No, Billionaires Aren’t Going to Mars
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Not to make a regular habit of linking back to the prior place, but there was a detailed discussion on why a large scale colony on Mars wasn’t going to happen anytime soon.
Spoiler: it’s the food. Billionaires always forget about food production.
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Mars is also thoroughly covered with toxic chemicals
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Exactly. I mention in passing about the soil being unsuitable for earth plants and needing habilitation.
But really, the idea that humans could live on Mars in large numbers within our great grand kids’ lifetime is ludicrous.
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On the other hand, Leon is so full of shit that farming on Mars might actually work after all.
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I wouldn’t mind Musk being the first man on Mars. By my math, assuming an opportune Hohmann transfer is used for efficient use of propellant, his impact acceleration should be about 140g. We can then name the impact crater after him.
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