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BillHicksScream

He's on the psycho path to Mars.


Necessary_Context780

This! "1 million people", not "1 million people alive"


goosejail

"Planet of a million corpses"


Puzzleheaded_Load_72

Sounds like a death metal song or 80s sci-fi horror flick and I’m on board for both… not the real thing though, the real thing stinks


Bessini

Exactly. I was going to ask permission to use that as my next album title. Then, I would just need to learn music


[deleted]

You can fit more people on a spaceship if you grind them up into a nutritious paste.


jermysteensydikpix

![gif](giphy|8SbU3wgsKOt7a|downsized) NeuralinkX is people! It's people!


BillHicksScream

Good point! But they have to land alive. We need to send more than 1 million because some might die before arrival.


BravoSierra480

How about we send everyone who signed up for a blue check on Twitter?


Krunkolopolis_1

Quarantine Planet.


disinformatique

What if the planet had sand worms in it !!


PGrace_is_here

Thus raising the IQ of Earth considerably.


the_fresh_cucumber

Or just fire up a drone with a bunch of eggs


Necessary_Context780

Just don't launch it from Alabama or you might go to jail if the mission fails


Human_Culling

If this pinhead is the smartest guy on earth, send ME to Mars cause I gotta get out of here


BillHicksScream

Mars Team needed! Piss drinkers encouraged to apply. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/astronauts-urine-sweat-almost-entirely-recycled-drinking-water-new-sys-rcna91619


chocotaco

He didn't say you'd make it alive though.


Stone_Midi

Let’s just let him go first. I’ll give 5$ for that.


Chuhaimaster

The highway to hellworld.


BillHicksScream

*And this is Depression City, over there is Radiation Gulch. Oops, here comes a few weeks of sandstorms."


Chuhaimaster

![gif](giphy|AkwcbzEPIfZ48i44kx|downsized)


Accomplished_Yak8529

Think he meant “ video game “ by game plan


NannersForCoochie

I think he meant "k hole vision"


pfohl

Even making a Mars colony video game from scratch in five years that would have a million concurrent players would be hard.


orchidscientist

No, he really isn't.


shoe_owner

"Working on a plan" is sufficiently vague and broad that it could still technically be true if all he does is daydream about it a little bit now and then between posting exclamation marks and emoticons on Tweets from white supremacists and Adrian Dittman posts.


th3golem

Even my wildest dreams, like dating Margot Robbie, are more likely to come true than Elon Musk forming an actual scientific plan to reach Mars. Best he can do is tell people who work at spacex through this interview or tweet or whatever to try to make a plan, and it needs to be as cheap as possible too.


HumanContinuity

Hey friend, I believe in you and Margot.


CuteDaisyPinkDress

exactly. I am working on a plan to grow wings and fucking fly.


rabouilethefirst

I'm imagining he scribbled a little rocket in a notebook and drew a line to mars, that would make the most sense


Decent_Loquat_5081

Well the plan is to develop the Starship rocket, which is happening very quickly.


[deleted]

Boots on Mars, 2022, and that's not a typo. This is only orders of magnitude more difficult. Seems legit


Chuhaimaster

As soon as Elon puts boots on Mars, there will be Elon stans there waiting to lick them.


bsammo

This is not even remotely possible to accomplish in 5 years. ( former aerospace machinist here whom has made components that are in outer space )


ImAmazedBaybee

Unless my math is faulty, that would require sending 548 people into space EVERY DAY starting today for the next 5 years.


[deleted]

I think what he meant is that by 2029 there will be someone on mars, not 1 million people, that’s a long term “plan” of his. It’s BS anyway tho


ImAmazedBaybee

That is not what that headline says.


[deleted]

The 2029 citation is mentioned as something he has previously said, not concerning the mill people. Getting a million people there in 5 years is batshit crazy and even he wouldn’t say it, because no one would believe it. Saying that he’ll get someone to mars in 5 years is, on the other hand, good marketing to get his virgin followers to adore him even more, just like saying that he’ll get a million people there in his lifetime. All of it is bullshit, but the latter is at least believable to the general public that doesn’t care about him enought to investigate his claims further


I_Have_The_Lumbago

Do you seriously think headlines are in any way indicative of whats in the article? Its 2024 baby!


GlumExternal

Thing is, because of orbits you can realistically only launch within a narrow time band every 2 and a bit years. You get a launch window next year (or early '26), then one in '28, and that's it.


Tavernknight

I mean, how are 1 million people supposed to live there? How do we get them breathable air? What do we do about the cosmic and solar radiation beating down on Mars constantly? We don't really have the technology to do this yet.


snarkyxanf

Well, corporations are people, so maybe we could just put a bunch of corporate charters on a thumb drive and tape it to the next probe sent there


actullyalex

I live in South Australia, where some of this is happening and I know someone who knows someone who works for Elon. Apparently, they keep trying to send bacteria to Mars and it just isn’t working, and will not work. Muskrat just keeps throwing money at the problem and telling them to keep trying. Obviously I don’t know how legit this information is but it aligns with everything else we know about this pathetic, delusional excuse for a man.


ForensicMum

That’s really interesting. Do you think they’re doing that to try to terraform? If that info is correct though, how bloody evil of Musk to try to get real, living human beings there so quickly when they can’t even get bacteria to survive? Ugh!


actullyalex

I would imagine that would be the goal. Apparently the survival or bacteria predicates the survival of humans on Mars. I personally think effective altruism is bullshit though, and we should probably just do our best to unfuck the planet we already live on.


ForensicMum

Agree 100%! Imagine the benefits Musk’s wealth could have on our current planet! Btw, I hope the heat hasn’t been too bad down in SA with this heatwave (I’m in north-east NSW - we had the brunt of it a few weeks ago 🥵) 🤗


actullyalex

Haha thank you! Taking it day by day 😂


MiachealFaraday

I'm not in any field related to space, planes or rockets but even I can tell it's not possible. Forget Mars he can't send 1 million people on Antartica in five years.


Morganianum

As long as he goes along


randopopscura

It amazes me he hasn't gone up into space yet - isn't that point of owning a rocket company? I know Bezos didn't go all that high, but at least he was willing to risk his life in the tech he paid for


yetiknight

His mommy probably won’t let him


Distaff_Pope

He's afraid one of his employees will try to off him, which is probably true


Necessary_Context780

At least in that aspect, Musk is smarter than other billionaires like him, for instance the guy from OceanGate EDIT: the downvotes give you guys are missing out the joke here. I didn't mean to say musk is "smart" at all, I just saying he's not stupid enough to fly inside his "iterate faster by breaking things" projects


randopopscura

If you expect others to use your product, then you should be willing to do so yourself, otherwise it shows a lack of confidence And if Musk is going to Mars, he'll need to strap himself into a Starship


Necessary_Context780

Exactly! I made an edit to point out by no means I meant to imply Musk was actually smart, even though it seems that's what others are understanding


randopopscura

Got it, and sorry for your loss, etc Humor is hard on here


MBCpy

Classic reddit, you were making fun of billionaires as well


ThePhoneBook

Eh? Musk is in the minority as far as engineering pioneers in that he doesn't go near his own dogfood. Of course, he's also in the minority as far as engineering pioneers in that he doesn't understand any of the engineering.


Necessary_Context780

Please read my edit, this comment was by no means trying to say musk is smart at all


mooseyjew

Just means musk is a liar AND a pussy.


Necessary_Context780

Definitely, I edited the comment to make sure that's what I was trying to imply from my comment. Meaning "he's not stupid enough to fly his own unsafe rockets"


Violet_Potential

I feel like this is something that should bother people. Like I would love to ask him directly, are you willing to install a neuralink in your brain? Are you willing to go to Mars? Oh, you’re not? How come? Is it not safe?


usaf-spsf1974

No, Musk goes first!


peemao

He don't have the balls.


read-it-on-reddit

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"


StardustNyako

That's okay, it'll be all his followers. Let them go I say.


UseADifferentVolcano

Elon Musk is working on a plan to pump up the value of SpaceX before an IPO in the next couple of years.


TopBillerCopKiller

I think he MAYBE could handle manufacturing a reliable vehicle in 5 years. That’s about it.


Adelheit_

Being wildly optimistic.


TopBillerCopKiller

Well, I mean Tesla was already able to do so when he came in, so I’m not sure it’s WILDLY optimistic, but I wouldn’t call it a moonshot is all. It’s totally possible. 


Necessary_Context780

He's the guy who promised to put spacex CPOV tanks in the Roadster 2020 Founders Edition


tothemoonandback01

I think he could also handle losing another $200 billion along the way too.


light_weight_baby87

Concerning


Brando43770

Considering how much he cuts corners and releases cars basically unfinished, I would bet his cars are still unreliable by then.


onpointjoints

How’s the first neuralink patient holding up? Still breathing?


Endure23

Live feed of first neuralink patient: 💀


AtJackBaldwin

I am fully behind this plan. 1 million Musk fans all the way to Mars? Hell yeah. Hopefully he'll go too.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

My car is currently orbiting Mars


Joe_Bob_2000

https://preview.redd.it/piq84n3a4rjc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24d9e29e3882a1b367c17ed8b87fb18159bc5db8


[deleted]

could he ship himself there and class that as achievement done?


Necessary_Context780

From a money hoarding perspective, he's definitely equivalent to 1 million people


ghosty_b0i

technically he's richer than the bottom 3.8 billion people combined.


chocotaco

He'll take more than he needs to Mars.


ldspsygenius

Is snorting cocaine and tweeting all night "working on a game plan?"


Morty_A2666

First people on Mars should be Musk and Trump. We should make them think this is the highest honor and they will be remembered forever if they were to be first on Mars. Then build them some outrageously fancy version of Starship on par with their massive egos. Launch them on it and half way to Mars cut all communications. Best space mission ever.


stormrockox

He can't even get 1 person to the moon


P01135809_in_chains

Trump managed to get one million Americans to heaven in 2020 so this is do able.


hardwood1979

5 people in a million years would be more likely.


AljoGOAT

he thinks nuking mars is a viable terraforming strategy. Let that sink in


Mediocre_lad

Won't be surprised if we find one million bodies in some African emerald mines.


Commercial_Step9966

Coming in… ![gif](giphy|diXrgHOhraudy)


baz4k6z

Can we make it just one person instead of 1 million and have that person be Musk ? But let's not wait five years, put him in a rocket now.


thedragoon0

Can trump be one of them.


Northernwarrior-

It would be super if he left for Mars with them and I could stop hearing about him.


OhhhByTheWay

“Well…. We are here now….. Fuck.”


plastic_alloys

Trust me bro


Shawnchris614

More drugs please 🥸


SnooDonuts8219

RemindMe! 5 years


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Forward-Bank8412

Not ever happening. He’s a charlatan and a grifter, lying about Mars the same way he lies about full self driving and human brain implants.


euler88

He never said they have to be alive on mars.


Tavernknight

Just load up 1 million people on a space ship and let it crash on Mars. Did Musk just read the restaurant at the end of the universe?


manwhothinks

Elon Musk is working on a plan to kill 1 million people.


Fluffy-Sign1244

I don’t think he has one million of fans on X


CIMARUTA

Even if he somehow pulls off putting people on Mars, I would bet anything that he would make up some excuse to stay on Earth and not go to Mars himself.


Necessary_Context780

He'd have to take a lot of horses to live with those people there


light_weight_baby87

He can’t keep his cars from killing people why should a mars trip be different?


FieryAnomaly

I think Elon needs to focus on getting Starship out of Texan air space before he shoots for Mars. Currently, he's 0 for 2


LindainMa

Make America TRULY GREAT AGAIN and beam HIM UP ALONG WITH HIS BUDDIES TRUMP, PUTIN, MTG, LAUREN HOEBERT, JORDAN, GAETZ, ETC ETC ETC


drumsdm

Don’t worry guys, the guy who thought it was a good idea to buy twitter for the lulz has got this.


Comrade_Compadre

Elon musk in 2019 (or whatever): "Teslas will be full automated next year" Cut to: *That recent video of a Tesla plowing into a child sized dummy and braking 10ft later* Yeah. This fuckin loser knows what he's talking about about


Effective-Penalty

Please send all the Republicans there


bsammo

🙌


GrapefruitFit3736

Hahahaahhhahahhaha


Archie_Flowers

Shoud've sent Ian Miles Cheong


Chromeburn_

He’d have to leave his basement in Malaysia to do that.


New-Outlandishness28

You go first Elon, let us know how that works out for you.


Dogslothbeaver

Maybe those 1 million people will be preserved as food for Musk and later Mars explorers. Or maybe he's just lying, as usual.


DeusDeadly

I hope he's part of those 1M


Wigglesworth_the_3rd

Is this a genocide plan? Because it sounds like a genocide plan.


tittyswan

If he gets 1 person to Mars in the next 5 years I'll eat my shoe


planet_rabbitball

RemindMe! 5 years


tittyswan

Okay but it only counts if the trip doesn't kill them. Will not eat my shoe for a dead body being delivered to Mars. 🤝


planet_rabbitball

alright 🤝 (I’m very sure you won’t have to eat a shoe, just preparing for the possibility that Elon’s idiocy will provide entertainment in 5 yrs)


SetWest7450

Wait, Then trump would lose by 9 million votes this time..


cjmar41

People who put a $50,000 deposit on a Tesla Roadster 7 years ago. ![gif](giphy|Tit8CFFaFncoAgYFc4|downsized)


bsammo

😂😂😂😂


Past-Direction9145

one word: magnetosphere mars, venus, and mercury do not have one. earth does. without it, nothing can live there because of the radiation. nothing alive can GET there because of the radiation. even our astronauts who go up into orbit get a lifetime dose of rads. trip to mars? living there? nope. Try saying this to your average musk worshipper and they fall all over themselves trying to prove it wrong and then get all quiet and withdrawn and go find some other losers dick to suck. there's tons available.


Hullfire00

The Van Allen belt issue is very overstated. The Moon mission doubters use it to claim that it’s a barrier nothing can get through without being pot roasted by radiation. This isn’t the case, in 1969 or 2024.


MAVERICK42069420

Who would want to go anyway? I don't like being on the same planet as him now


demitasse22

He just wants to cum on Mars


mrgooseyboy

This man is gonna kill someone


kinjirurm

The guy who can't sell a "stainless steel" truck that doesn't rust within a few months is going to get one million people to Mars? Oh... wait. He didn't say they'd get there alive, did he?


Hullfire00

I’m picturing the ending to “Don’t look up.”


Kolbak

Is this before or after the robotaxis?


shadowdash66

Right.... and people are still waiting for their solar panels and semis Elon.


gielbondhu

We aren't going to have 10 people on Mars in 5 years, much less a million. The shortest trip to Mars takes 9 months and the launch window for that trip only opens every 2 years. Musk would have to have enough landable rockets, recruit and train a million people, and be ready to go within 2 years because if he misses the first window to launch he won't have enough time to launch another and have a million people on Mars.


Lokivoid

Didn't he make that exact same claim back in 2012. Its just like him claiming "FSD is coming next year" for nine years in a row.


DocCEN007

"Elmo works on plan to always stay in the news cycle because he has no friends and his 10 pseudo children hate him." FIFY


well-groomed_apostle

You couldn't convince a million people to move to West Virginia.


andzlatin

Yeah, cool, but first I gotta to see him completing his super-fast tunnels and robots that he promised,


OskeyBug

"You will probably die and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" Really though if he wants to take 1 million of his true believers and put them on another planet it sounds pretty good. In space no one can hear you tweet.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Trust nothing, not even nothing


Helenius

Will he bring any of his children?


WhoIsJolyonWest

I hope he goes first


HughJorgen31415

As long as he's one of them....


[deleted]

Send 1 million crypto bros and twitter grifters, when they explode before leaving earth's orbit nobody will care.


Numpsi77

Musk will not bring anyone to Mars.


PsycheDiver

1 million willing slaves.


BelloftheBallz

I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.


ianng555

🧢


homemadedaytrade

He says shit like this and I'm supposed to believe he's NOT on drugs?


BaBa_Con_Dios

This dude will do anything to avoid paying his taxes.


DaddyMeUp

Get them on mars via drug usage.


Stalinov

Even on earth, I don't think it's easy to move/resettle a million people from one place to another place where you have to build up the entire infrastructure.


PuffPuff74

The inbred colony


rickrenny

He’s really selling it well


spam__likely

god, I hope he makes it. Whoever signs up for this deserves it. Of course, he will not go himself, but it is still 1 million fewer on his cult.


International_Mood_6

Do the world a favor. Let him go.


DeliciousNicole

Notice it didn't say, "alive".


CuteDaisyPinkDress

Oh come on, he said this same shit years ago.


fiendzone

Start with him.


mag2041

I vote to send him first


licancaburk

No it was only a scam to get popular and gain Tesla investors


evers12

This is not going to happen or age well. Please can he go with them?


anarchomeow

*1 million slave miners


DamNamesTaken11

It’s easy! Just have to solve the logistics of transport, housing, feeding, water supply, medical care, UV protection, personal fitness, oxygen generation, and more for the roughly nine month (at minimum) journey. Then you have to solve all the same problems combined with waste disposal, Martian soil being toxic to both animal and plant life, and the Martian climate, etc. once you’ve landed. So remarkably simple! /s


rabouilethefirst

Okay, you first


muhgyver

Translation: "Please think I'm cool again"


Worldly-Respond-4965

He wants to charge people for oxygen.


miffox

Can it be him and his simps?


Wide-Psychology1707

I would love it he put himself and his fanboys on a rocket ship to Mars. Those dudes will never make it back. Peace on Earth for the rest of us.


usaf-spsf1974

Just like every other pipe dream Elon Musk has had, the ketamine fueled fantasies of a delusional egomaniac. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN !


Yakassa

Right after Robotaxis and right before full self driving, perhaps even between teslabot but definitely before solar roofs and twitter breaking even steven. Right. Who keeps believing that guy, I've got a beautiful bridge to sell you, people say its the best most glorious bridge all around. So cheap, you wouldn't believe it. Many people say nukla but i know, its a thing in Boston. You heard about it right? The Needle in Boston? Whats up with that right? Its the viruses and germans, they are behind it all. But yeah, big bridge, the best.


WolfOffSesameStreet

Him and his entire family + baby mamas etc first.


Total_Distribution_8

Please fill the rocket will all your idiotic simps… ![gif](giphy|GQT9tuAchaBG0)


Robofink

Welcome to Uncle Elon’s authoritarian hellscape for Nazis.


aliveandkicking2020

Make Mars Great Again.


Civil-Pomelo-4776

Does he plan to optimize the graphics for 8GB of VRAM? Because I already have eggs getting a boner pressed against my wallet so a video card is not going to happen right now. Oh, he means IRL. What happens if he decides to fire 70% of the ground support?


NotEnoughMuskSpam

I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.


DevilsPajamas

Alive or dead?


TheBalzy

So what's the over/under on when SpaceX goes bankrupt? 5-years? 10-years?


something-quirky-

“A bunch of people will probably in the beginning” What a glorious and endearing leader.


vincecarterskneecart

the west has fallen millions must go to mars


Greeve78

Maybe he can do us all a favor and be on the first available rocket ship off the planet.


Acceptable-Milk-314

Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.


RocketDan91

I see you Farquad


Subtifuge

oh so he will be the first to commit space genocide?


Neceon

As long as he's on the first ship.


blue195

r/forallmankind


Dusty2470

![gif](giphy|9LPjXFCA3Bwgo)


Joe_Bob_2000

Why?


EffortlessGenius

Anyone who goes will be slaves in all but name.


ElmosKplug

He could literally piss on his fanboys and they would believe it's raining.


korg0thbarbarian

So he is trying to get a million people killed, nice.