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I'm not a Musk fanboy but I do have to admit, the minute a real, adult, aerospace company like Boeing lets Elon Musk set its direction for the future, he does win. The larger more mature company had the infrastructure in place for this for years, yet never considered it or took action on it; that makes them look timid and unoriginal. There's an analogous situation with the mainstream auto manufacturers and autonomous cars. They jump late onto a bandwagon they should've been piloting.

I still think it's a pie-in-the-sky project though. Musk compares the Mars initiative to building the Union Pacific Railroad, but the UPRR was heading somewhere full of plunder and gold, where the natives didn't even wear clothes because the weather's so nice. This operation's headed for... Mars, where for miles around, it TOTALLY SUUUUUUCKS SOOO BAD, as Louis CK might say.