This guy has just gotten a $1 billion increase, in a NASA budget slashed by $6 billion, for Mars projects www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/n... Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026). What a grifter www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/e... - ThreadSky

jfallows.bsky.social • 7 days ago

This guy has just gotten a $1 billion increase, in a NASA budget slashed by $6 billion, for Mars projects
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/nasa-leader-warns-employees-tough-choices-ahead-with-6-billion-budget-cut-looming.html

Track record: Was "highly confident" in 2020 that his SpaceX would be *LANDING PEOPLE on Mars* by next year. (2026).

What a grifter

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/elon-musk-highly-confident-spacex-will-land-humans-on-mars-by-2026.html

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beckya.bsky.social•6 days ago

Grifter or delusional, take your pick

madcounselor.bsky.social•7 days ago

Doesn’t it take five years to travel there?

tlfrankking.bsky.social•7 days ago

Since it takes 10 months to get there he better launch soon.

dhendrick.bsky.social•7 days ago

Musky thursty for funders.

fredrikblue.bsky.social•7 days ago

Elon said a few years ago that he would send TWO manned space ships to Mars during 2024.

We, of course, don't have any reason to not believe what he's saying so evidently there are two ships on their way to Mars.

joeasher.bsky.social•7 days ago

And I haven’t even got a stupid Tesla shirt or anything.:.

too-big.bsky.social•7 days ago

Sending people to Mars is a pointless endeavor except for those making money from it.

lesc534.bsky.social•7 days ago

I dunno, i think there could be a case for sending a whole shipload of republicans... musk the whole trump fam, all of cabinet... sounds good to me, especially if its as successful as his last launch

queenie49.bsky.social•7 days ago

How is he going to get passengers to Mars when his rockets keep blowing up? I wish he'd board the next one.

karlph.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just remember Kennedy said
The Goal:
Kennedy declared that the nation should commit to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. For Musk it will be a sacrifice of Human for his petty glory.

dsng480.bsky.social•7 days ago

Never forget the 10-year cock-sucking competition, featuring the public, the media, and celebrities lining up to worship this narcissist, charlatan and fraud.

Humans have incredible blind spots.

stevie49.bsky.social•7 days ago

Who else wonders if he'll still be walking free by then?

freeman22.bsky.social•6 days ago

He wouldn't lie to us would he? LOL. He's nothing but a con artist.

pidxr.bsky.social•6 days ago

The next relevant transit window is 2029-2032 ?

juststeve120.bsky.social•7 days ago

They'll be dead, but they'll be there. Yippee.

drakeal.com•6 days ago

Once he displayed his true colors on public television I have no trust for this man...

kbkorb.bsky.social•7 days ago

Well done, Elon. Taking after your master!

jess-murray.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wonder if we can start protesting at SpaceX sites like we already do at Tesla stores/charging stations.
Many places have on-going Saturday TeslaTakedown protests.
And obviously, it's worked.
SpaceX and Starlink could be other locales to call out this sociopath billionaire installed in our gov't.

kymid129.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wish he and his dopey friends would fuck off to Mars!

spudulika.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope he's on that trip.

luvthatbeagle.bsky.social•6 days ago

If he wants to go to Mars, he should do it using his own money. I see NOTHING in it for the taxpayers.

dollyrealmadison.bsky.social•7 days ago

Keep NASA
Fully fund it
NASA is We The People
This is a no brainer

barscap.bsky.social•7 days ago

ellkell.bsky.social•7 days ago

It seems that going to Mars would be one of the easiest cuts to make in our government - right?

fryern10.bsky.social•6 days ago

Let’s hope he is on the crew!

zamafir.bsky.social•6 days ago

No. they won't. Lol.

pascalg01.bsky.social•7 days ago

They might dead, but whatever.

allthingsdogs.bsky.social•6 days ago

musk keeps moving the line for grifting purposes. first it was 2022.

omarlakkis.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hopefully he'll lead the first flight.

lmwilliamsphd.bsky.social•7 days ago

Grift-X

lauraapollo.bsky.social•7 days ago

Tesla self driving cars... 🙄

lauraapollo.bsky.social•7 days ago

nobopedro.bsky.social•7 days ago

…and the rest of us are confident Elon is full of shit…

bowprow.bsky.social•7 days ago

No tax money for healthcare or social security (people paid into it), but let’s inject more tax money into space-X! DOGE indeed! (Dripping with sarcasm)

samcrut.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is there some way to place bets on every claim Elon makes, like maybe something in Vegas? I'm sure they'd have to find some way to incorporate a points spread to even out the odds, like ±5 years when he sets a deadline.

jolly1766.bsky.social•7 days ago

Elon is a fraud.

nlbe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Please send him first. No return trip

nostepfordwife.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can he be one of them?

midnight-ninja.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bitch better hurry along since it takes 7-10 months to get there…

evecuyen.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nobody is stopping him

attani.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sounds good to me. Take Rumpy with you.

ella-cinders.bsky.social•7 days ago

Can this happen yesterday please? 🙏

mistyskai.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's welcome

lesc534.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah we would like him to die there too

rickschmitz.bsky.social•7 days ago

There was a time when I was excited by the prospect and human habitation in space, and I always thought that it would happen via private enterprise trying to exploit the resources in space. I now feel like humans in space is mostly a waste of time when robot probes do a much better/cheaper job.

ceindeed.bsky.social•7 days ago

If the next Democrat running for President doesn’t run on (among a multitude of other things) “Elon Musk, and his companies, are being completely defunded by my Administration”, then that person is not qualified to lead our Government.

foxjohninpa.bsky.social•6 days ago

They’ll be deported Venezuelan immigrants.

goodplacejames.bsky.social•6 days ago

He’d better hurry up, then.

Even on a one-way, high delta-V burn,

It would take … at least 7 months?

themahimike.bsky.social•7 days ago

*He never said they would be alive, or it would be whole humans.

jonsky.bsky.social•6 days ago

I can't think of the Mars program other than being an Elon scheme to funnel tax money into his businesses and pockets.

A manned mission to Mars is decades away and is under any circumstances a terribly small bang for the buck. A waste of a lot of resources

meatwad17.bsky.social•6 days ago

This dudes been selling snake oil for years. And gets rewarded for it.

folderal.bsky.social•7 days ago

1) it will never happen;
2) if it did happen, we would soon know the life expectancy of a human on Mars

philoof.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah we already missed the window to be on Mars by 2026.

lauradionnecurry.bsky.social•7 days ago

He needs to crash land on Mars and be stranded.

guycole.bsky.social•7 days ago

Do it again w/FSD. Always confident, never correct.

catschicks.bsky.social•6 days ago

And the grift continues

shannonisariver.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wouldn’t they have to leave like last year then?

tallgirll.bsky.social•5 days ago

Send Musk to Mars NOW

christineg123.bsky.social•5 days ago

The ENTIRE cabinet!

aszesq.bsky.social•7 days ago

Assuming that this country can ever repair the damage that this administration of felons, bigots and liars have done and will continue to do, how many decades will it take to reclaim and repair our nation?

vero1986.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tesla accounting is done by the Corleone family.

Musk lies about his accomplishments. He's never done anything.

ayfkmrn.bsky.social•6 days ago

Funny how this Elongated Anus says they will land a human on Mars by 2026

But never mention how that human will be coming back

rockhopper420.bsky.social•7 days ago

what's annoying is that the starship is the only vehicle being developed for this purpose that has the capability to actually get the job done... what will it actually do? more starlink probably-they're trying to back out of Artemis saying 'let's go straight to mars'

rockhopper420.bsky.social•7 days ago

turning down funding and outside review/input for designing crew quarters and increasing expertise in landing under different gravity constraints shows a disinterest in tackling the challenges necessary to actually use starship as human transport.

rockhopper420.bsky.social•7 days ago

crew dragon is great for a very short duration in near earth orbit where we have a giant magnetic bubble keeping radiation at bay and a fast return to an active biosphere. at best mars is a 6 month voyage one way, life support systems from the station needs to be upgraded for more time and crew

rockhopper420.bsky.social•7 days ago

I do still see him trying to push this as a back up plan to run away from consequences of the laws he's currently breaking in broad daylight should the current attempted dictatorship fall through. from what i have heard from friends of friends in spacex-the more input he puts in the worse things get

evodevo1.bsky.social•6 days ago

I see a Titan submersible-type accident in the crystal ball lol - same level of hubris and arrogance.

rockhopper420.bsky.social•6 days ago

different situation entirely. That sub had made several trips and had repeated stress fractures that failed under INTENSE pressure. The vacuum of space 0 PSI. It wouldn't be fast, it'd probably be running out of food or something like covid but worse in 0G

doyoulikepizza.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am down with this, let’s even give him a couple billion more, as long as he personally commands the first manned mission. Please. Go.

mikeroos.bsky.social•7 days ago

yevkras.bsky.social•5 days ago

He’s stupid, he’s overly confident, he’s a liar and a con artist, and he has done and continues to do incomprehensible damage to this country

corruption47.bsky.social•7 days ago

Total grifter

souldance.bsky.social•7 days ago

I hope the tech thugs are first

jamesdolson.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s an absurd promise that no on should take seriously, FFS, the last 2 starship flights exploded well before orbit. Even if they had been a success, it’s still a decade plus to manned Mars flights, so many unresolved technical issues.

mistyskai.bsky.social•6 days ago

The way he was confident about his self driving cars🤔

ratokn.bsky.social•5 days ago

Elon cuts services for the people but awards himself billion dollar contracts that should have been open for bidding. Self serving SOB.

purplejustice.bsky.social•7 days ago

He should go first!

johnasilva.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think of the good all this “Let’s send people to Mars!” money could do to help save this planet and shake my head at those who think this is a good use of taxpayer dollars. Feed the children? Why when we can send people to Mars? Just a terrible waste of money.

nlago1.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’d be willing to go into debt, to go through a recession, including a depression, to send Elon Musk off to Mars if I was guaranteed …

ncmc1994.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think we all need to stop paying taxes if this is where OUR money goes.

m0untainkat.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is a growing movement for this - check out the @nationaltaxstrike.bsky.social

anfifapoppa.bsky.social•6 days ago

How’s he going to monetize all our data? Or are he and Trump going to hold it hostage against future prosecution?

rvashelly.bsky.social•7 days ago

He is a total grifter. Just like his buddy. Their overconfidence fools a lot of people. But that’s all they are at the end of the day. A couple of egomaniacs with crappy track records. All hot air and this is the biggest shakedown they’ve ever pulled off by far. Thanks to a naive American public. 💔

pottersville.bsky.social•6 days ago

pentacon.bsky.social•7 days ago

If he was 1/4 as smart as he perceives himself to be. He would know human habitation of Mars is not possible or cost effective. It is a totally insane idea to trash Earth in order to try to habitate Mars which has 1/3 Earth's gravity.

sweetsunray.bsky.social•7 days ago

And no magnetic field to speak off, therefore barely no atmosphere and being blasted by cosmic radiation constantly at deadly and sterilising levels. Our survival rate as individuals and species is higher in a nuclear winter after a nuclear war on earth than trying to set up a colony on Mars.

carljanderson.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just adds a year every year..

dschurman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Elon Musk has lived off of taxpayer's handouts since he came to the states. He's a grifter.

celtuk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not a chance. Starship is a bust as it can't survive reentry let alone the radiation bombardment of interplanetary space. I doubt whether the extra billion will solve the issues either. We should be planning a "gateway" station at Mars' L1 point, not trying for the giant leap

nealshepperson.bsky.social•7 days ago

Looking forward to him going the same way as the my pillow guy.

thenoseknow.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's been highly confident that Tesla cars would be fully self driving for about 10 years now as well! And his serving robots recently that were actually controlled remotely,while space Karen insisted that they were autonomous !!! This bastard is just as big a grifter as Trump !!!

rlb-21.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's rich enough to do it on his own. Why does he need US taxpayer money?

canonbal.bsky.social•7 days ago

dead humans?

ld58esq.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’d like to send him on a one-way ticket to Mars.

jthom529.bsky.social•7 days ago

Cool, make sure he’s one of them and he can stay there

bryan-in-pa.bsky.social•5 days ago

do they plan to grow food there to feed hungry people here on Earth?

pitti42.bsky.social•6 days ago

This waste of taxpayer's money need to be stopped. One way or the other.

steviejones.bsky.social•6 days ago

When you buy a presidencyyou get all kinds of cool prizes.

chromeguardsman.bsky.social•6 days ago

A reminder.. with our current tech, to land people on Mars next year, he'd have to have launched them there last year..

cal90125.bsky.social•7 days ago

I pray God keeps Mars out of his reach.

griergg.bsky.social•7 days ago

Mars? Only one person needs to take that ridiculous one-way ride, and that's Musk, oh, two: Him and the orange doofus.

mortgageconsult.bsky.social•5 days ago

BALONEY

juliaa801.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh dear lord, let him and trump go continue their love affair (along with putin and the republicans in Washington) with them. PLEASE.

superwho86.bsky.social•7 days ago

Can you be the first one to leave the planet, and stay gone?!

auralsects.bsky.social•7 days ago

How's the self driving car you promised in 2014 going?

finite-entity.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://www.popsci.com/science/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/

lkopc.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ahhh, just like we'd have the "driverless" cars #musk promised numerous times over the years.

Even snake oil salesmen back in the day enjoyed some pushback.

We have a dangerous shortage of actual #TechKnowledge & #CriticalThinking.

terry-157.bsky.social•7 days ago

Like with all the things wrong with this Country here at home; we have to send billions to go to Mars!!!!!

scurg1.bsky.social•6 days ago

We can't get people to the moon and he thinks Mars is doable in 18 monfhs?

sweetsunray.bsky.social•7 days ago

Question this year on a research class assignment in physics about magnetism (HS): when I claim that we won’t be setting up a human colony on Mars for the next millennium, can you present arguments why I would be so confident in that claim.

mooseandsquirrel.bsky.social•7 days ago

Oh, I want him to be right. And that person landed (and stranded) on Mars can be him!

desolebleu.bsky.social•7 days ago

Let’s all hope he’s one of them.
🥾🚀🔴 Bye-eeee

victorn86976916.bsky.social•7 days ago

druid48.bsky.social•6 days ago

live humans?

franklinchica.bsky.social•7 days ago

In case anyone is wondering about the timeline, the flight would have to leave by June 1, 2026 at the very latest in order to reach Mars by Dec 31, 2026. I don't think any live humans will make it.

franklinchica.bsky.social•7 days ago

But could we make sure that only non-DEI candidates will be on the flight. I don't want them blaming the non-white, non-males if they screw up.

sassdroid.bsky.social•7 days ago

They would have to leave in less than a year to make it by Dec 31 2026

sandy2950.bsky.social•6 days ago

He came so close, missed it by this much!

briancoulombe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Even if he had a rocket that could do the speed of light and it took off this second, he would miss his deadline by at least nine years.

cocothecat.bsky.social•7 days ago

Narrator: Musk would die in a fiery Tesla crash before anyone even attempted to travel to Mars.

buried-forest.bsky.social•7 days ago

Send King Donald, Elon the racist Grifter, and JD the Liar on the first mission to Mars. Only send ROVs after that.

kegates.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why?
Could it be any lower in most people's priorities for the U.S.?

ellieoster.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have some ideas bout who should be on that spaceship.

wandererriha.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can he be the human?

billharder.bsky.social•7 days ago

The idea that Elon was once venerated and widely quoted by business leaders as a visionary is so laughable now.

barscap.bsky.social•7 days ago

I agree with the sentiment, but very few major credible fund managers have had active long positions in Tesla - it's always been a retail stock (and associated indexation) as far as I can tell..

coyote108.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trump is installing an oligarchy like Putin did in Russia. Russia’s most profitable organisations were dismantled and taken over by tycoons able to take advantage of an increasingly compromised privatisation process and seize control of hugely profitable state enterprises.

onsonsweemey.bsky.social•7 days ago

Surely it's illegal to artificially inflate your stock price by blatantly lying

jaytingle.bsky.social•7 days ago

To say nothing of his tunnels scam.

lenhanger.bsky.social•7 days ago

Never Happen!!

It's a scam.

It's a way to steal our money.

kencomplain.bsky.social•6 days ago

He can’t even get the stuff done on Earth that he bragged about doing, so it’s no surprise that his other “ambitions” are suffering a similar fate.

makeadifference.bsky.social•7 days ago

Please let the first one landed be Elon....with no return trip permitted!

strandschaf.bsky.social•5 days ago

For a billion dollar he must take The Clown and his whole cabinet with him.

wwhitness.bsky.social•6 days ago

No one cares about landing on uninhabitable Mars

curmudgeon61.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not likely.

sn8keeyes19.bsky.social•6 days ago

Shouldn't they have left by now? If they want to hit it by the beginning of 2026 of course.

clear-mirror.bsky.social•6 days ago

Why does CNBC continue to respout that drivel?

Why repost it?

Or the bigger question, what can help increase BS detection and decrease adulation of grifters?

moongirlsusie.bsky.social•7 days ago

Musk, the guy who is about as attractive as a ripe pimple and as trustworthy as a hungry hyena somehow screws the U.S. out of its tax dollars some more.

hmmmmnothankyou.bsky.social•7 days ago

Complete and total grift

aekellner.bsky.social•7 days ago

He hasn’t even obtained orbit yet with his Space X rocket.

elfodder.bsky.social•7 days ago

I worry for the Artemus crew that has to use starship as their lander.

I swear we are gonna lose the crew because the elevator fucking breaks or some stupid shit.

parker113.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hope he is onboard and runs into a meteor shower.

barscap.bsky.social•7 days ago

guy has always been a stock-promoter nothing more or less.. it's only an army of basement dwelling neckbeard retail dinguses who own his stock.. Try pitching $TSLA to a fund manager.. "It trades on 300x earnings but they're doing robot buses by year-end". Get out of my fucking office..

aleksnotx.bsky.social•7 days ago

He’s been “highly confident” Tesla self-driving would be a thing “next year” since at least 2016.

huby.me.uk•7 days ago

And there are other companies that have actually rolled this out now.
I think it's arrogance. Around 2016 they ditched MobilEye and tried to develop an in house solution. Result was no self driving at all for new Tesla cars for over a year as it was harder than they thought.

mikapeltokorpi.bsky.social•7 days ago

"The most important month" of Tesla existence is apparently now - according to the Tesla stock pumpers. Meaning: Austin, Texas Robotaxi trial *should* start in June.

cowboycat13.bsky.social•6 days ago

💀🗡️

cshlgvdajce830.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes, please. We do need to send a few people to Mars.

follyfarm.bsky.social•7 days ago

Do we as taxpayers have any say in this?? Did our reps vote on it?

asceptic.bsky.social•1 hour ago

NASA robotic missions have proven brilliant both in terms of engineering and execution. Their management and overview of the Boeing Starliner fiasco less so. Then again, SpaceX can't seem to get their Starship into orbit.

mementomori4950.bsky.social•6 days ago

Why won't he go to Mars, take his family along 😏

sfsurfing.bsky.social•7 days ago

Elon is such a fraud. He didn’t invent Tesla, he bought it. He didn’t invent or engineer any rockets, he hired rocket scientists. Can we please just fully fund NASA again, I’m sick of privatizing everything that matters.

vw70er.bsky.social•7 days ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

flagone.com•7 days ago

Be sure to take Trump, Vance, Johnson and McConnell with you. We’ll send fuel for your return. If it’s in the budget….

mishcd.bsky.social•6 days ago

Absolute grift! This will not happen- just an avenue to steal $$$$ from tax payers

alexandersonjd.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bro is so dumb (also read as Fraud) because even if spaceX could do it, they'd need to leave in like 6 months to have a chance to be there by 2026, and a flight like that would take many years to even plan.

jcgalizio.bsky.social•7 days ago

6-9 months travel each way with best orbital alignment and about 6 months on Mars before that return window. Would have to prestage the fuel and supplies in orbit or couldn't build a rocket big enough. How long would it take to prestage, let alone build everything. Delusional.

williamdupont.bsky.social•7 days ago

Right…

Just like he was “highly confident” we’d have “Fully Self Driving” cars by 2016.

Well…

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