Elon Musk wants to send people to Mars and he knows how to do it.
That was the overall theme of Tuesday’s speech about SpaceX’s plans to “Make Humans a Multiplanetary Species.”
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But it wasn’t all charts, animations and rocket science. Musk snuck in a few solid jokes into his visionary plans for space travel.
Here were some of the funnier moments:
When Elon Musk made an underpants joke.
Yes, he said part of the funding plan is to steal underpants. But he’s not crazy, he was making a reference to a South Park episode.
Which means Elon Musk watches South Park?
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Kickstarter is also integral to the money-making scheme and the crowd funding site was all for it.
When Elon Musk made a “Battlestar Galactica” joke
Yes. Elon Musk watched Battlestar Galactica and he liked it. And he thinks you should watch it too.
When Elon Musk called himself a “dancing machine”
Musk shared this amazing photo of the SpaceX team roughly 15 years ago, noting it was just carpet and a mariachi band.
Then he called himself a dancing machine. Obviously.
When Elon Musk referenced “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
OK this was less funny and more heart warming for all the geeks watching.
Musk explained that he wants to name the first ship after the ship “Heart of Gold” in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Musk said he would shorten the name to “HOG” but he liked the name because in the book, the “Heart of Gold” is powered by “infinite improbability” and he thinks his plans are rather improbable too.
It’s poetic, really.
And everyone loved it.
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