[marron]

I still like Musk. He wants to be on Mars during my lifetime. He isn’t content to schedule a landing for 40 years from now, like NASA.

[Steely Tom]

I still like Musk. He wants to be on Mars during my lifetime. He isn’t content to schedule a landing for 40 years from now, like NASA.

Amen, bro!

[ctdonath2]

“He isn’t content to schedule a landing for 40 years from now, like NASA.”

And that’s the “persistent 40 years”.
As a boy, NASA was going to have me on Mars in 40 years...40 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

if Elon had SpaceX stick to what it's good at, the company would own the worldwide launch business. His fixation on Mars is going to destroy his ability to get there. Also, he's full of crap when he flips off "living on Mars will be the easy part" -- if he manages to build even one of the Big Falcon Rockets and send people to Mars, most if not all of them are going to die there sooner rather than later, and he'll find no one to continue to write him checks, and he'll be going to prison.