Posted on 05/29/2025 2:15:27 PM PDT by DFG
U.S. — Washington was abuzz with the news that Elon Musk had officially stepped down from his duties as head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk said he will now spend his time tackling the much easier job of sending human beings to Mars.
Musk started DOGE with Vivek Ramaswamy and hit the ground running on President Donald Trump's first day back in office. While Ramaswamy quickly abandoned the venture after coming to the conclusion that running for governor of Ohio was easier than cutting wasteful spending in Washington, D.C., Musk stayed on for several more months before he finally decided that figuring out how to send people to Mars was a far simpler endeavor.
"Working in government is a far more complicated and challenging job than inventing rockets capable of taking humans to other planets," Musk said of his decision to leave DOGE. "Coming up with ways to make interplanetary travel a reality is one thing, but dealing with senators and congressmen is truly difficult. I look forward to having a more relaxing job of figuring out how to safely transport people to Mars, colonize it, and terraform the planet's surface."
Though Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is a barren wasteland with unbreathable air and a surface completely devoid of liquid water, experts agreed that dramatically altering the atmosphere and topography of Mars with technology that doesn't exist yet sounded much easier than permanently cutting government spending.
At publishing time, Musk was reportedly emboldened to accomplish his quest to make humanity an interplanetary race after realizing colonizing Mars was mankind's only hope to escape government waste.
True.
The title is perfect.
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Getting humans to Mars is a technical engineering task, in which your "opponent" is constrained by logic, rational thought, and common sense, and ultimately by the laws of Physics.
Eliminating waste from government is a task of dealing with people, who are not constrained by anything, including logic, rational thought, common sense, propriety, morality, or any laws whatsoever.
This belongs in Not-The-Bee.
This isn’t a joke. Its 100% true.
Gotta love The Bee!
Just send it to the mainscummedia idiots and they will spread the truth for once.
The key to good humor that works is truth in it.
That’s true.
Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk say they’ll save the world with AI, Mars colonies and eternal life. PhD Astrophysicist Adam Becker says they’re dead wrong.
Who is right — the billionaire or the scientist?
In this interview on The Nerd Reich podcast Adam Becker—author of More Everything Forever—calls out Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the tech overlord cult pushing fantasies of immortality, godlike AGI, and space empires. From the myth of the singularity to the hellish reality of Mars, Becker brings the receipts and destroys the pseudo-science behind billionaire techno-utopianism.
🌍 Why Mars is NOT humanity’s backup plan
🧠 Why AGI is more religion than science
💀 Why tech bros fear death—and want to make us all pay for it
📉 The terrifying ideology behind AI hype, space colonization & trans humanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NrDCvKp5-k
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