Go to Mars, Jeff. And Stay There.
The Atlantic is my favorite magazine. Can you tell? The piece below (in this pillar of high quality journalism) targets the idiot obsessions of guys with too much money blowing it on rocket ships to Mars. Yes, what SpaceX is doing in terms of making satellite launches and trips to the Space station or the moon economical and reliable is a great service to our country and the world. Going to Mars, not so much. In what must be one of the most moronic statements ever uttered by a clueless out of touch plutocrat, Jeff Bezos actually said that he couldn’t think of how else he could possibly spend all his billions except space travel. Gosh Jeff, can you give it a bit more thought? Perhaps someone with fewer than eleven houses could make a suggestion? Or someone who doesn’t have a servant to manage his servants?
Fun Fact:
- Elon Musk’s latest invention – I mean his newborn child – is named, no shit, XÆ A-12. Elon helpfully explained that the child’s name should be pronounced, “X-Ash-A-12”. Oh. This is his seventh child and is designed to be fully charged overnight.
- Remember Frank Zappa? Yea, you’re old too. One of his kids was named Moon Unit. I like that better. I like Frank better…
Mars Is a Hellhole
The Atlantic, by Shannon Stirone
February 26, 2021