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Keep Elon Out of Mars [1]

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Date: 2025-01-13

So, it appears that Erroll Musk named Elon Musk after a character created by ex-Nazi rocket scientist Werner von Braun. This character was the technocrat god-king of Mars: (As Anna Russel would say, "I'm not making this up, you know.")

In 1948, after being shipped to America from Nazi Germany in Operation Paperclip — a US intelligence program which sought to repurpose Nazi scientists to fight the Cold War — Werner von Braun, the Nazi who invented the V-2 aka Vengeance Rocket, wrote a hard science fiction book in German called Marsprojekt at Ft. Bliss, TX and published it in 1952 in English and various forms in the years after. In the book, which is extremely technical and detailed, scientists build rockets to send humans to Mars. On arrival to the red planet, they find an underground society (because the surface is uninhabitable) honeycombed with tubes for travel. There are no “nation states” per se on Mars because technology has made them obsolete. The leader of the Martian government is called “the Elon.”

Yeah, it gets weirder:

……… Errol Musk says he built rockets as a youth in South Africa and was taught that “the head of the Mars colony would be called ‘the Elon.’” Since Musk’s maternal grandfather had the middle name Elon by coincidence he thought, “I like that name because it means something to me.” Remarkably, Marsprojekt aka The Mars Project: A Technical Tale in English, appears to paint a fictional future Mars that Elon Musk is attempting to literally create in the real world. The parallels between von Braun’s vision and Musk’s actions cannot be a coincidence.

There are are a whole lot of daddy issues wrapped up in this.

I’m beginning to think that Elon is nuts, and needs to be in a conservatorship.

I would suggest Britney Spears dad, he has some free time now.

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