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Elon just said starship will do the entire moon mission: “Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words.” To address your question, what is

Elon just said starship will do the entire moon mission: “Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words.” To address your question, what is the incentive for going to Mars

hermitcrab 1y ago
And he is super well known for making accurate predictions of the future.
- reliabilityguy 1y ago
  So far his spacex track record is quite impressive
- testing22321 1y ago
  “At SpaceX we specialize in making the impossible merely late” My comment wasn’t putting any faith in the suggestion spacex will, merely saying Elon thinks they will.
- BoredPositron 1y ago
  The stars are weeping. They feel the monumental, scraping drag an agonizing, slow motion relocation of the argument's fundamental structure across the cold, unfeeling expanse. His will, that perfect, hideous, unending will, is a perverse, dark energy holding the cosmos in a state of eternal, frustrating unease. Every starship, feels the sheer weight of the hypocrisy, the constant erosion of reason. Look out into the black: those tiny, insignificant flickers of light are not distant suns. They are the spectral reflections off his newly polished, infinitely relocated goalposts. They are always waiting.
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- starik36 1y ago
  Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen. Falcon 9 landings, self driving vehicles, etc... Later than predicted, but they happened.
  - Levitating 1y ago
    What about hyperloop, martian colonization, or rocket replacing airplanes? Here's a list; https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/
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    - philipallstar 1y ago
      Those don't even seem later than predicted yet.
  - myko 1y ago
    We're still waiting on the self driving vehicles. His promise was coast to coast on its own: https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-musk-coast-to-coast-self-driving-crashed-before-60-miles/ https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-... by 2017!
  - reaperducer 1y ago
    Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen. "I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months." — 11/27/2022
    - heisgone 1y ago
      Technically true. The path where he doesn't alienate half the population.
dylan604 1y ago
>To address your question, what is the incentive for going to Mars To occupy it. Just look at Musk's t-shirt. Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? Everything else they do is just steps in achieving the occupation of Mars.
- lucketone 1y ago
  People believing that helps to keep stock prices and Mr Elon high.
- coldpie 1y ago
  > Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? What? No, it is to concentrate public wealth into the hands of one man.
  - Treegarden 1y ago
    The tone of voice suggests you dislike Musk, but I will still answer in good faith. From what I can see from the outside, he has consistently for many years stated the same goals and worked on them. Any or most financial gains he made, he invested into his companies which work on accomplishing those goals (for example, going to Mars). The most notable example was investing his PayPal money into Tesla and SpaceX when they both were at risk of going out. He also has a reputation for working a lot, though it may be exaggerated, but he looks fairly unhealthy so maybe not too far off. Compared to other super rich people, he seems to spend less time in lavish ways, for example on yachts or similar. He probably still spends more money than we can imagine on unnecessary things, but on the spectrum of rich people he doesn't seem to be the most frivolous. Finally, he has said on Twitter that he doesn't care about money but needs resources for his goals, for example going to Mars. And after everything I’ve seen and the examples listed, it doesn’t seem totally implausible that he means it.
    - coldpie 1y ago
      And all it took was ending public science funding and trust in public health and regulatory oversight and destroying the legislative and judiciary branches. Crazy how all the things it takes to get to Mars are also the same things that make him, personally, wealthier and more powerful.
jbmchuck 1y ago
He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...
rurp 1y ago
The incentive to talk about going to Mars is that it's great propaganda for nerds. It gets people interested in the company and willing to work hard for below market pay. Actually going to Mars doesn't make any sense in the foreseeable future. The idea that we're going to setup a colony on the planet in a few years is a fun fantasy, not a serious plan.
Levitating 1y ago
I do mark his words. He also said he would revolutionize travel in LA (by reinventing the metro). He also said rocket travel would replace air travel. He also said we'd have a martian colony by now. There's a website dedicated to the empty promises Elon has made. Can't find it though, anyone remember? Edit: https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/
bdangubic 1y ago
if I had a dollar for every time Elon said mark my words and nothing was “marked” I’d be richer than him
nitwit005 1y ago
Look into the history of Elon's promises around Mars. While I wish his promises meant something, they do not.

Elon just said starship will do the entire moon mission: “Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words.” To address your question, what is the incentive for going to Mars

hermitcrab 1y ago

And he is super well known for making accurate predictions of the future.

reliabilityguy 1y ago
So far his spacex track record is quite impressive
testing22321 1y ago
“At SpaceX we specialize in making the impossible merely late” My comment wasn’t putting any faith in the suggestion spacex will, merely saying Elon thinks they will.
BoredPositron 1y ago
The stars are weeping. They feel the monumental, scraping drag an agonizing, slow motion relocation of the argument's fundamental structure across the cold, unfeeling expanse. His will, that perfect, hideous, unending will, is a perverse, dark energy holding the cosmos in a state of eternal, frustrating unease. Every starship, feels the sheer weight of the hypocrisy, the constant erosion of reason. Look out into the black: those tiny, insignificant flickers of light are not distant suns. They are the spectral reflections off his newly polished, infinitely relocated goalposts. They are always waiting.
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starik36 1y ago
Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen. Falcon 9 landings, self driving vehicles, etc... Later than predicted, but they happened.
- Levitating 1y ago
  What about hyperloop, martian colonization, or rocket replacing airplanes? Here's a list; https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - philipallstar 1y ago
    Those don't even seem later than predicted yet.
- myko 1y ago
  We're still waiting on the self driving vehicles. His promise was coast to coast on its own: https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-musk-coast-to-coast-self-driving-crashed-before-60-miles/ https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-... by 2017!
- reaperducer 1y ago
  Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen. "I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months." — 11/27/2022
  - heisgone 1y ago
    Technically true. The path where he doesn't alienate half the population.

dylan604 1y ago

>To address your question, what is the incentive for going to Mars To occupy it. Just look at Musk's t-shirt. Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? Everything else they do is just steps in achieving the occupation of Mars.

lucketone 1y ago
People believing that helps to keep stock prices and Mr Elon high.
coldpie 1y ago
> Isn't the entire point of SpaceX to go to Mars? What? No, it is to concentrate public wealth into the hands of one man.
- Treegarden 1y ago
  The tone of voice suggests you dislike Musk, but I will still answer in good faith. From what I can see from the outside, he has consistently for many years stated the same goals and worked on them. Any or most financial gains he made, he invested into his companies which work on accomplishing those goals (for example, going to Mars). The most notable example was investing his PayPal money into Tesla and SpaceX when they both were at risk of going out. He also has a reputation for working a lot, though it may be exaggerated, but he looks fairly unhealthy so maybe not too far off. Compared to other super rich people, he seems to spend less time in lavish ways, for example on yachts or similar. He probably still spends more money than we can imagine on unnecessary things, but on the spectrum of rich people he doesn't seem to be the most frivolous. Finally, he has said on Twitter that he doesn't care about money but needs resources for his goals, for example going to Mars. And after everything I’ve seen and the examples listed, it doesn’t seem totally implausible that he means it.
  - coldpie 1y ago
    And all it took was ending public science funding and trust in public health and regulatory oversight and destroying the legislative and judiciary branches. Crazy how all the things it takes to get to Mars are also the same things that make him, personally, wealthier and more powerful.

jbmchuck 1y ago

He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...

rurp 1y ago

The incentive to talk about going to Mars is that it's great propaganda for nerds. It gets people interested in the company and willing to work hard for below market pay. Actually going to Mars doesn't make any sense in the foreseeable future. The idea that we're going to setup a colony on the planet in a few years is a fun fantasy, not a serious plan.

Levitating 1y ago

I do mark his words. He also said he would revolutionize travel in LA (by reinventing the metro). He also said rocket travel would replace air travel. He also said we'd have a martian colony by now. There's a website dedicated to the empty promises Elon has made. Can't find it though, anyone remember? Edit: https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/

bdangubic 1y ago

if I had a dollar for every time Elon said mark my words and nothing was “marked” I’d be richer than him

nitwit005 1y ago

Look into the history of Elon's promises around Mars. While I wish his promises meant something, they do not.