Elon Musk thinks it’s almost certain that we are living in a computer simulation. In short, we are characters in an advanced version of The Sims — so advanced that it creates, well, us. I understand the instinct to treat the idea as absurd, and to ignore people who suggest these things. It’s what happens…
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SpaceX And Blue Origin Fight To Win The Modern Space Race
From a dusty expanse in West Texas, Jeff Bezos and the crew of Blue Origin, his well-funded aerospace company, fire up their New Shepard rocket. It rises vertically, thrusting into the heavens at more than 2,800 mph. The unmanned crew capsule it’s carrying detaches and it crests roughly 64 miles above sea level, and the…
How Elon Musk Started
Elon Musk is now Earth’s most future-oriented person. How did such a person come to be? In a hundred years, when most people reading this and the person writing this are long gone, Musk’s cars and rockets will still be circling the Earth and the skies. How can such a person get started against all…
‘Test Like You Fly’: What Qualification Means for SLS Rocket
The word “qualification” has become quite synonymous with testing and building the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System, which will make missions possible to an asteroid and the journey to Mars. So, what does it mean for rocket parts to be “qualified” for the mission of going to deep space? And how does that…
Elon Musk’s Next Project Creating Overnight Millionaires?
Why Is Elon Musk Buying This Rare Metal Hand Over Fist? Elon Musk relies on one crucial resource: lithium. Lithium is the “fuel” in the batteries that power Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) cars. Commodity prices from crude oil to iron and copper have dropped all worldwide. But there is one notable exception: lithium. The price…
Physicists say they’ve figured out how to ‘see’ inside a black hole
What lies beyond the event horizon. Physicists have come up with a new way to predict what lies beyond the event horizon of a black hole, and it could give us a more accurate idea of their mysterious internal structures. Thanks to the first – and now second – direct observation of gravitational waves emanating…
Why Millennials Want to Work for Elon Musk, Even If the Pay Sucks
Data from PayScale shows that the most meaningful jobs in tech may not be the best paying or least stressful, and the stickiest workplaces may not give the biggest raises. You might think Elon Musk would be upset about data from PayScale that pegs Tesla and SpaceX as low-paying employees by tech industry standards,…
Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket’s crash landing
Elon Musk isn’t afraid to admit when things go wrong. The SpaceX founder tweeted out a video on Thursday of the company’s rocket crashing as it attempted to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Looks like early liquid oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck pic.twitter.com/Sa6uCkpknY — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)…
Trump calls on Elon Musk to settle all Muslims on Mars
Donald Trump approached visionary inventor Elon Musk yesterday with an offer to name Musk as his Secretary of Transportation on the condition that he transport all the nation’s Muslims to Mars on his rocket ships. “This solves the problem of Mars volunteers and the problem of safety all at once,” said Trump, “because it wouldn’t…
First SpaceX missions to Mars: “Dangerous and probably people will die”
In a WaPo interview, Elon Musk says those who found cities on Mars will know the risks. As we get close to the end of September, when Elon Musk has promised to lay bare his plans for colonizing Mars at an international space conference, it seems like the ambitious founder of SpaceX can hardly contain…
At least a trillion alien civilizations have ‘almost certainly existed’ in the universe
Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk often weighs on robots, Mars colonization, and alien civilizations. On Sunday, his convictions about the existence of extraterrestrial life got a boost – this time from an article in the New York Times by astrophysicist Adam Frank, which is provactively titled “Yes, There Have Been Aliens.” Frank’s research…
Elon Musk is building a supply chain to Mars
SpaceX’s aim to colonize Mars is inspired by the Age of Exploration, but the plans themselves look a lot more like a white board at a global logistics firm. The Elon Musk-led company, which announced in April that it will send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars in 2018—following years of research and testing to…