Elon Musk Has Likely Downloaded His Brain into a Robot - TheStreet

Elon Musk is charismatic but also whimsical. Sometimes it's hard to know if Tesla's (TSLA) - Get Tesla Inc. Report chief executive officer is serious when he makes ostentatious claims and thunderous statements on Twitter, his favorite communication channel where he has more than 101.6 million followers as of time of writing. Is he provocative or simply ambitious when he announces that humans will be living and self-sufficient on Mars twenty to thirty years from now? "20 to 30 years from first human landing if launch rate growth is exponential," Musk said on July 15 to a question about the estimated timeframe for creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars. "Assumes transferring 100k each rendezvous and 1M total people needed," the billionaire added. The history of outlandish claims by the richest man in the world has often shown that he really means what he says.