Elon Musk took to X on Sunday to inform people who in the event that they vote for Donald Trump, he’ll take them to Mars inside a number of years—and in the event that they vote for Kamala Harris, they’ll kiss a visit to outer area goodbye. (And humanity as effectively, however it’s the outer area stuff that’s vital right here.)
In a prolonged publish on the social media web site he purchased in 2022, Musk wrote: “SpaceX plans to launch about 5 uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If these all land safely, then crewed missions are potential in 4 years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will probably be postponed one other two years…. It doesn’t matter what occurs with touchdown success, SpaceX will improve the variety of spaceships touring to Mars exponentially with each transit alternative. We wish to allow anybody who desires to be an area traveler to go to Mars! Meaning you or your loved ones or buddies – anybody who goals of nice journey.” Sounds fairly cool, huh? But when the mean-lady candidate wins, no area for you.
“Whereas I’ve many considerations a couple of potential Kamala regime, my absolute showstopper is that the forms at present choking America to loss of life is assured to develop beneath a Democratic Social gathering administration,” Musk advised his followers. This chokehold, he claimed, wouldn’t solely “destroy the Mars program“ however “doom humanity” too. (He didn’t point out that he has endorsed the ex-president and donated to a pro-Trump tremendous PAC he helped create.) “It can’t occur,” Musk warned. “Your assist could be a lot appreciated. This can be a fork, perhaps the fork, within the highway of human future.”
As Quartz notes, this “isn’t the primary time that Musk has forecast an apocalyptic situation that can doom society.” He beforehand warned that the inhabitants would collapse on account of low fertility charges (therefore his one-man mission to populate the earth); that human civilization could be worn out by an asteroid like the one that killed the dinosaurs; and that the sun would eventually incinerate the earth. However apparently a Donald Trump win can save us all.
