If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humani… - Elon Musk

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If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humanity becoming a multi- planet species - which I think is a very, very important objective - then I would consider the mission of SpaceX successful, at that point.

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Elon Reeve Musk (born 28 June 1971) is a South African-born entrepreneur and business magnate resident in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; president of the Musk Foundation; and owner of X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, Inc. With an estimated net worth of about US$487.3 billion as of October 2025, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg billionaires index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

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Birth Name: Elon Reeve Musk
Alternative Names: Elon R. Musk • Elon R Musk
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It’s the idiotic blank slate fallacy.

If someone labors under the absurd belief that all humans are exactly the same (despite glaringly obvious differences!), then any variance in outcome must be due to some combination of oppression and luck.
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