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Musk's #1 goal from the beginning is to put a lot of people on Mars, and do it in a rather short time (per human-history scale). We're talking a guy who literal
by ctdonath 10y ago
Musk's #1 goal from the beginning is to put a lot of people on Mars, and do it in a rather short time (per human-history scale). We're talking a guy who literally invented PayPal just to make enough money to really get the project started. His other endeavors are as well, while laudable in their own right, really just ways of accumulating the resources to achieve that goal.
- mulmen 10y agoMusk did not invent PayPal. He founded x.com which merged with PayPal two years after PayPal was founded. He has also been clear that he had three goals: 1) Expanding solar power use. 2) Popularizing electric vehicles. 3) Making human life multi-planetary. I am paraphrasing and perhaps understating his desired level of success.
- ctdonath 10y agoGo read Musk's biography at WaitButWhy.com - and you'll see that summarizing it into a two-line post is difficult. Suffice to say it all serves the goal of colonizing Mars.