I also want to be on the record as saying that this might not be the worst thing that could happen to the planet.
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To be clear, this may be a funny website where we make jokes about things, but I seriously believe that there’s a non-zero chance that Elon Musk will go full supervillain at some point, and that if or when this happens that there’s a better than 50-50 chance that he will actually conquer the globe. Watching the livestream of the Falcon Heavy taking off on Tuesday, the only thought going through my head was that if or when Elon Musk ever decides to actually become a real-life supervillain and take over the world, he’d probably succeed. And he did it at the same time that he started a highly successful car company. Getting a rocket into space cost Musk hundreds of millions of dollars and watching most of what he spent that money on literally blow up. One thing that Vance’s book really puts into perspective is how insanely fucking complicated and difficult starting a rocket company is. He’s also monomaniacally infatuated with himself, but with a kind of endearing lack of self-consciousness about it that, again, comes off as strongly Doom-esque.īy coincidence I just got through the chapter of the audiobook covering SpaceX’s first successful launch in 2008 just a few days before the highly publicized launch of its brand new Falcon Heavy rocket. Doom would try conquering the world with an army of Doombots in one issue of the Fantastic Four, then be back a couple issues later with a plot based around mind control gas. Musk’s built a career on idealistic visions, from Mars colonies to keep the human race alive in the event of an environmental collapse on Earth to cutting our reliance on the very fossil fuels that might cause it, but something about him just reads “supervillain.” His projects are outlandishly grandiose and yet totally random-seeming (Rockets! Batteries! Brain implants!), like how Dr. There’s definitely something cartoonishly supervillainous about projects like SpaceX and his more recent startup Neuralink, which according to its almost menacingly bland website, is “developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.”īut what if it’s not a joke? What if Elon Musk really does have a plan take over the world? The “Elon Musk is a supervillain” meme has been going around the Internet for years, becoming a regular feature of the rock star levels of media coverage he receives. And it really takes you inside the mind of the man who may very well rule the globe with an iron fist within a matter of years. The narration by Fred Sanders is top rate, especially the bizarre, unplaceable accent that he uses for Musk’s voice that sounds absolutely nothing like how the real Musk speaks, which I love.
There’s a punchy storyline about an outsider starting from the bottom and conquering the game that feels like the go-go first act of every good drug dealer movie. I highly recommend it for a number of reasons.
A friend of mine recently sent me the audiobook of journalist Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
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