Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Money Count


 "The Money Count" is a reoccurring feature, as outrage and/or hilarity demand.


How much money does Elon Musk stand to make on Trump's promised conquest of Mars? The government contracts! New merchandise! Exclusive rights!

Last September, Musk said that SpaceX would launch five Starships to Mars in 2026, unmanned, to test the entry through "the thin Martian atmosphere and to arrive on the surface in one piece." He promises to have manned flights by 2028.

Trump nominated Jared Isaacman to head NASA, a billionaire who has flown two private astronaut missions on SpaceX rockets and who is a close associate of Musk.

What a team! Musk and his best bud Isaacman, spending the Republic's treasury on an adventure to Mars. Did you ever see a table-setting as conducive for a big fat gourmand's meal?

1 comment:

Red Hornet said...

Oh Boy, the t-shirts alone will make a billion. But no human will ever live to land on Mars. The radiation exposure alone would fry astronauts. You must remember that many questions are never explained in space movies.
We don't have light speed travel, transporters and replicators. All we have is primitive lasers, atomic bombs and fossil fueled rockets. Just lack of gravity can kill people. And climate chaos is already here. Food is in jeopardy already.
No fruits and veggies, or any edible things on Mars, because it is a desert with thin atmosphere.