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Was Musk named "the Elon" after Nazi Werner von Braun's fictional Martian colonial leader?
by rexpop 2y ago
Was Musk named "the Elon" after Nazi Werner von Braun's fictional Martian colonial leader?
- tim333 2y agoYup, he was.
- Zigurd 2y agoBut the ms went unpublished until 2006, according to wikipedia. Supposedly the book was excerpted in a Sunday supplement magazine, but only in US newspapers. Mysterious!
- rexpop 2y agoUnpublished in English, perhaps. There's a clip of Elon's dad saying that his caretaker had read the book to him, translating along the way, and so he'd known the name. It also coincides with an in-law's name, so he took that coincidence as a sign. But Errol really did say that the name came from the book.