Aww, poor little billionaire can't afford his war treats. Does the little billionaire want his binky?

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We wound up literally having an Alcoholics Anonymous — style intervention where I flew in people to Los Angeles and we all sat around a room and said, 'Elon, you cannot start a launch company. This is stupid.'

He shares his superpower not with Tony Stark but rather with Donald Trump — the ability to carry debt.

In 2002, he had started a rocket company without bothering to tell his wife that he was starting a rocket company — he left that to Adeo Ressi.

Musk has not only spent almost $1.5 million on Washington lobbyists over the last two years; he maintains what an official with close ties to NASA calls a "symbiotic" relationship with Lori Garver, a former commercial-space advocate who advised the Obama campaign and who now, as NASA's deputy administrator, has insisted that she reports to the president himself.

a veteran safety expert e-mailed NASA's chief safety officer and asked him about reports that the first stage of the rocket had exploded. Musk sued the man for $1 million and settled the suit on condition of his retraction and silence.

Also a bunch of stuff about him getting fucked by capitalism

There's so much more, this article is dense with Musk bashing

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Falcon 1 was the first space x rocket

Project cost US $90 million

Cost per launch US$7 million

Falcon 1 made five launches. The first three failed, however the subsequent two flights were successful,

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"Triumph of his Will"???

How much Nazi dogwhistling do you need? Triumph of the Will was the Nazi filmed movie about Olympia during the Third Reich. Fuck Esquire for a lot, but that with lets build our own rockets - alluding to the German V2 missile construction is bad taste in addition. Thousands or ten thousands of forced slave workers died during the projects - and no - Musk didn't build ANY rocket.