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America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
Actor
Aerospace Engineer
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Pretoria
South Africa
Elon Reeve Musk
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The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.
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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.
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Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'
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Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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As a child I would just question things.
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Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold
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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.
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It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
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Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.
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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated
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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
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