I think it depends on what is being audited. My issue with the Mars claim is that it really doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Practically any use case for Mar

I think it depends on what is being audited. My issue with the Mars claim is that it really doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Practically any use case for Mars ignores a better mitigation on Earth. So it comes across to me as one of those exciting, but impractical options. And “exciting hype” is what I would characterize Musks MO in SpaceX, Tesla etc. So based on his previous overly hyped promises, my priors are now more suspect. But when it comes to taxpayer money, the public absolutely has a right to audit. You can see how this played out with both Boeing and SpaceX. They were given huge leeway early, and they were audited more when they showed evidence that maybe some of that extreme trust was misplaced.