His old standard bullshit has long been promising fever dreams of colonizing Mars and turning it into a stroad-laden suburb and country club with a red lens filter, which has gotten him billions in subsidies year after year and a devout cult of credulous rubes that think they're too smart to be fooled.
He's jangling those metaphorical keys hard right now, and I think it may be make or break as a gambit. Yeah yeah I know electoralism is a fuck and it's a choice between red MAGA and blue MAGA, but if it's blue MAGA I'll still enjoy seeing the single most obnoxious dipshit Reddit incarnate techbro manchild in the world eat shit.
Even if it was some like…utopian government sponsored thing and not the weird cult of personality corporate dictatorship it would surely turn into, the idea of living on Mars is not appealing to me.
Being light years away from every other human, on some inhospitable rock, where my only way back is some rocket is not appealing to me.
actually mars is only 0.00002 light years away 🤓
Probably not. Designing a rocket that can carry humans to Mars is one thing, but a round trip rocket? That's probably centuries away. If you went to Mars, you'd be stuck there for life (which would probably be quite short).