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From http://fortune.com/2017/12/07/elon-musk-boeing-mars/
By Tom Huddleston Jr. December 7, 2017
Elon Musk is daring Boeing to beat him to Mars.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted a challenge on Twitter after Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said on Thursday that his aerospace giant would transport the first humans to Mars. Eventually were going to go Mars and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket, Muilenburg told CNBCs Jim Cramer this morning.
In response to a tweet from the Fortune Tech Twitter account linking to Fortunes news article about Muilenburgs bold bet, Musk simply wrote, Do it.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Are these guys thinking that the Martians could not possibly be more deceitful, corrupt, vile and treasonous than the KGOP reptillian republicans, and their ignoble, unprincipled soul-predator Draft-Dodger-in-Chief? Is that why they are so hot to bail on Planet Earth? Ya gotta wonder.
Would you forget about Mars for a little bit and and finish building my Model 3.
My old Honda is not going to last for ever!
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Company CEO Elon Musk said the company was entering production hell trying to manufacture the new car.
Bottlenecks occurring in the production line has caused significant halts in production with just 260 produced from July to September.
It was revealed in the shareholders report that issues at the Gigafactory with battery production has been the main cause of delayed production
Just a few hundred cars have been delivered to customers when it was expected to be pushing out around 5,000 a week by this point.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/874544/Tesla-Model-3-electric-car-production-delays-quarterly-earnings
Ohiya
(2,238 posts)We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which ...