Comment Re: It's not a surprise (Score 2) 140
Slowly infusing technology into society so that he can safely return back to Mars from whence he was exhiled.
If we let NASA condone any more of these rockets, we're headed for was with Mars in a few years at 91 rockets per quarter!
That, or some geeky kid hit it big with PayPal. Really loved electric cars and rockets. Started a couple companies that while not revolutionary, provided revolutionary production scaling for new technology.
Queue celebrity and drugs, and we have Lord Elon of the Twitterverse best buds with Kanye and Trump.
Is it really any more complicated than that? There's whole government agencies chasing these guys for damage control.
As a Tesla stockholder, I would be asking myself how much CO2 is produced by 365 rocket engines over 10 years.