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Scientist Predicted 'Elon' Would Lead Humans On Mars Back In 1948

DeepEnigma

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 Scientist Predicted 'Elon' Would Lead Humans On Mars Back In 1948


We already know of Elon Musk's dream for mankind to colonise Mars, right? So here's some good news for people who are into that idea - back in the 1940s, a scientist 'predicted' that he would lead us there.

Well, sort of.

The manuscript for a book titled The Mars Project has been shared on social media, with people making the link between one key line and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is at the forefront of the human effort to travel to the Red Planet.

Written by German scientist Wernher von Braun in 1948, the book is essentially a technical specification for the mechanics of life and society on Mars, explaining how it could work.

And one paragraph, which looks at how the planet will be governed, predicts that it will be led by the 'Elon'.

The passage, translated into English, reads: "The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled the 'Elon'.




"Two houses of parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet."

Now, this isn't a specific reference to the South African businessman, of course. It was written more than 70 years ago... but it's still very spooky.

With von Braun being a religious individual, the term is thought to stem from the Hebrew word meaning 'oak tree', likely referring to a leader being a sturdy individual.

The Mars Project was originally conceived as the appendix to Marsprojekt, a science fiction novel written by von Braun in 1948, but it formed the basis of a lecture he gave at the First Symposium on Spaceflight held in New York City three years later.

The following year, the appendix was published separately in Germany, before receiving an English publication in 1953.

And if recent developments are anything to go by, the real life Elon and his team are getting closer and closer to their ambition of making it to Mars in the next few years.

Just this week, SpaceX finally landed a version of its Mars-bound Starship rocket without it exploding into a million pieces, which is a huge achievement.

The SN15 rocket, a 165-foot leviathan, was launched from the company's Boca Chica testing facility in Texas at 5.25pm local time on 5 May and managed to get 10 kilometres up into the air, emerging from the top of a cloud that had previously been obscuring it, before descending horizontally and then righting itself at the last second by firing the engines.

SpaceX is getting closer to Mars-bound travel. Credit: PA


It's a seriously cool feat of engineering.

You wouldn't believe that a huge stainless steel rocket could successfully manage to stick such a delicate and soft landing, but it did.

That's more than can be said for some of the other tests they've had, where the rockets have been blown to smithereens either upon or just after landing.

After this one came down there were a few moments of tentative waiting as flames were spotted coming from the bottom of the machine.

Those fires were put out by remotely controlled water hoses, and it seems as if everything went pretty much to plan.

Naturally, Musk will have been delighted to see his project finally manage to stick a landing. After those fires had been extinguished - and with them, the threat of explosion - he tweeted: "Starship landing nominal!"

 

NickFire

Member
"Just this week, SpaceX finally landed a version of its Mars-bound Starship rocket without it exploding into a million pieces, which is a huge achievement."

That line cracks me up even though it really is an awesome achievement. Just can't help but chuckle at "without it exploding into a million pieces."

Man, this is probably the first SNL I've specifically looked forward to in a decade. Hoping they hit a home run on some science based skits.
 

Aesius

Member
Speak for yourself
What does that have to do with anything? He got a hair transplant and looks a million times more attractive and presentable. Now he’s got a cult of personality and is a super famous CEO. Wouldn’t have been as accepted by the public pre-transplant.
 
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JeremyEtcetera

Unconfirmed Member
What does that have to do with anything? He got a hair transplant and looks a million times more attractive and presentable. Now he’s got a cult of personality and is a super famous CEO.
This is all true...now what happens?
 

TheAdlerian

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His company is fake and a scheme to make money via installing fantasies in minds.

1. Electric cars: these were tried in the 1930s and don't work.

The current type do not charge fast and there's no place to charge them if they ever became popular. Millions of people in apartments can't charge them and at stations it takes too long. So, they will never become common.

2. Traffic tunnels: The tunneling machines don't work like on cartoons, so the idea is impossible.

3. Brain Link: that is an idea from Iain Banks Culture science fiction novels. We do not know how the brain works at this point and so we cannot link it to anything.

4. Mars: We can't fly in space or maneuver ships very well. We can point something at a place and time it to hit it. So, we have no craft to adapt to situations in space. We do not have the ability to land on Mars. We do not have the ability to take off if we could land. There's much more.

Right now he is testing hollow rockets that look like some kind of ship but they aren't the full weight with shielding etc for radiation and they don't have rooms etc.

His whole thing is a gimmick.
 
His company is fake and a scheme to make money via installing fantasies in minds.

1. Electric cars: these were tried in the 1930s and don't work.

The current type do not charge fast and there's no place to charge them if they ever became popular. Millions of people in apartments can't charge them and at stations it takes too long. So, they will never become common.

2. Traffic tunnels: The tunneling machines don't work like on cartoons, so the idea is impossible.

3. Brain Link: that is an idea from Iain Banks Culture science fiction novels. We do not know how the brain works at this point and so we cannot link it to anything.

4. Mars: We can't fly in space or maneuver ships very well. We can point something at a place and time it to hit it. So, we have no craft to adapt to situations in space. We do not have the ability to land on Mars. We do not have the ability to take off if we could land. There's much more.

Right now he is testing hollow rockets that look like some kind of ship but they aren't the full weight with shielding etc for radiation and they don't have rooms etc.

His whole thing is a gimmick.

The companies are actually real. What kind of truther bullshit is this?
 
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Nobody would be buying this dude's electric vehicles or following him to Mars.
he doesn't know that the castrati had no hair loss, iirc.

23/1/2007 · What hair loss that happened prior to the castration will not reverse. So if you lost all of your frontal hair and are starting to lose the crown hair, being castrated (medically or surgically) will not reverse the frontal hair loss, but will probably halt the hair loss in the crown. https://baldingblog.com/castration-to-treat-hair-loss/
There are ways of avoiding hair loss, but I'm sure most would find them unacceptable.
That's some million monkeys with a million typewriters type stuff right there.
Or the library of babel

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How Can Electric Cars Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real
Our eyes are likely virtual in nature constructs of digital information in an abstract immaterial computer that is eternal. Nothing exists sans Truth, the body of Truth, that which is True. Truth transcends the void, the nothing, time, all that is. It is the basis of reality. And it is why we can redefine our relation with reality such that all that we seek can be had instantly and without difficulty.

The world of the future is one of unlimited time and resources, both physical and nonphysical. IF we do not collapse or end enslaved a bright future lay ahead.

A world of the imagination, where fantasy and reality combine and become everyday life.
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The technologies of nanotech(unevolvable intelligently designed molecular machinery), ai(artificial intelligence) and bci(brain computer interface), allow for unbounded freedom if they are allowed into the hands of the masses.
 
What does that have to do with anything? He got a hair transplant and looks a million times more attractive and presentable. Now he’s got a cult of personality and is a super famous CEO. Wouldn’t have been as accepted by the public pre-transplant.
Who would take this blad man seriously? No one that's who

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Daymos

Member
Yes! Go to Mars! Work in my giant lithium mine for 16 hours a day.. I need cheap batteries!

Mars is dead. There is no magnetic field to protect it from the sun ripping off a manmade atmosphere. We're better off on Venus where it's 900 degrees due to global warming.. just figure out how to lock down all that carbon (good luck). Just gotta find some really tough plants. Maybe china can genetically engineer them and just start randomly shooting capsules of them at Venus.
 
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