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    heisgone ◴[] No.45659875[source]
    I can imagine SpaceX choosing to self-finance a mission to the moon and beat NASA at it.
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    ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 ◴[] No.45659951[source]
    > I can imagine

    That probably does require some imagination. Starting with any incentive to do so.

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    testing22321 ◴[] No.45660186[source]
    Elon just said starship will do the entire moon mission:

    “Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words.”

    To address your question, what is the incentive for going to Mars

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    1. hermitcrab ◴[] No.45660262[source]
    And he is super well known for making accurate predictions of the future.
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    2. testing22321 ◴[] No.45660461[source]
    “At SpaceX we specialize in making the impossible merely late”

    My comment wasn’t putting any faith in the suggestion spacex will, merely saying Elon thinks they will.

    3. BoredPositron ◴[] No.45660467[source]
    The stars are weeping. They feel the monumental, scraping drag an agonizing, slow motion relocation of the argument's fundamental structure across the cold, unfeeling expanse. His will, that perfect, hideous, unending will, is a perverse, dark energy holding the cosmos in a state of eternal, frustrating unease. Every starship, feels the sheer weight of the hypocrisy, the constant erosion of reason. Look out into the black: those tiny, insignificant flickers of light are not distant suns. They are the spectral reflections off his newly polished, infinitely relocated goalposts. They are always waiting.
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    5. starik36 ◴[] No.45660979[source]
    Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen. Falcon 9 landings, self driving vehicles, etc... Later than predicted, but they happened.
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    6. Levitating ◴[] No.45661089[source]
    What about hyperloop, martian colonization, or rocket replacing airplanes?

    Here's a list; https://elonmusk.today/

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    7. reliabilityguy ◴[] No.45661237[source]
    So far his spacex track record is quite impressive
    8. myko ◴[] No.45661460[source]
    We're still waiting on the self driving vehicles. His promise was coast to coast on its own: https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-...

    by 2017!

    9. reaperducer ◴[] No.45662722[source]
    Elon's predictions are usually very late, but they do happen.

    "I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months." — 11/27/2022

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    11. philipallstar ◴[] No.45668729{3}[source]
    Those don't even seem later than predicted yet.