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Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely over the top.<\/p>\n
Speaking to influencer Katie Miller \u2014 wife of Donald Trump\u2019s controversial deputy chief of staff<\/a> \u2014 on a painfully awkward podcast appearance<\/a>, Musk waxed poetic about SpaceX\u2019s latest rocket developments.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot coming down the pipe,\u201d he declares at one point.<\/p>\n \u201cLike what?\u201d Miller asks. <\/p>\n \u201cStarship,\u201d Musk replies. \u201cThe, the degree to which Starshipis a revolutionary technology is not well understood in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the first time that there\u2019s been any rocket design, where full rapid reusability is possible \u2014 well, full reusability at all is possible, or full reusability at all is possible,\u201d Musk\u2019s word salad continued. \u201cThis is the first design where a reusable rocket is one of the possible \u2014 with success \u2014 is one of the possible outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf there are historians in the future, they\u2019ll look back at Starship and say it\u2019s one of the most profound things that\u2019s ever happened,\u201d he boasted. \u201cYou can think of historic events as, where would they fit in the evolutionary hall of fame? You got things like single cell life, multi-cellular life, capturing a mitochondria and then also on that scale, probably in the the top ten, is life becoming multi-planetary.\u201d<\/p>\n Keep in mind, this is all about the SpaceX Starship, which has struggled immensely<\/a> to launch and subsequently land without exploding \u2014 failures so profound that NASA is now shopping around<\/a> for an alternate vendor for its Moon landing, which had been planning on relying on Musk\u2019s mammoth craft.<\/p>\n Musk wasn\u2019t letting any of that messy reality drag down his epic braggadocio, though.<\/p>\n \u201cThere just aren\u2019t very many things that are in the top ten of the evolution of life, where you can basically say \u2014 where you can evaluate any given civilization or any given life form as, y\u2019know, on that, that scale,\u201d Musk continued. \u201cSo life becoming multi-planetary, it\u2019s in the top ten.\u201d<\/p>\n While going \u201cmulti-planetary\u201d will surely be a major step for humankind, Musk\u2019s victory speech is way premature. For over a decade, the multibillionaire has promised flights to Mars<\/a> that never seem to arrive \u2014 an eternal can that\u2019s always kicked down the road.<\/p>\n