Stated ambitions and real motives are two different things. In hindsight it's looking like we fell for a hollow sales pitch. The odds of Musk himself physical

Stated ambitions and real motives are two different things. In hindsight it's looking like we fell for a hollow sales pitch. The odds of Musk himself physically departing the Earth forever (or even at all) on a mission to Mars are approximately zero. A true Mars-bound space farer wouldn't fritter about with all this Twitter and political nonsense, they'd stick to The Mission. Twitter becomes 100% irrelevant noise if you don't plan to stay on Earth.