This is authentic Flash Gordon stuff!
And the thing is, Musk also brings an element of style to everything he does.
His rocketship looks a lot like the streamlined rocketships that adorned the covers of 1950’s and 1960’s sci-fi magazines and books.
His launch of a Tesla with a spacesuited ‘driver’ brought mental images of a very similar scene in the opening of the 1970’s animated film “Heavy Metal”.
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It really is. Landing rockets on their butt ends alone brings back an entire generation of Amazing Science Fiction covers. This one has me shaking my head, though. You can't do that. You just can't do that.