Did you know Elon Musk was weirdly "predicted" in a Wernher von Braun book nearly 80 years ago?
In his 1948 novel *Project Mars*, von Braun describes a future Martian government led by a figure called the "Elon." It's not a person's name, but a title for the head of government.
Still, considering Elon Musk's lifelong obsession with Mars, this has to be one of the strangest coincidences in space history!
Elon Musk is building what could become the largest building in human history: Terafab.
And the scale of this thing is difficult to comprehend.
The planned facility in Texas is expected to cover around 100 million square feet. That would make it more than five times larger than the current world’s largest building by floor area.
But what exactly is Terafab?
Terafab is essentially Elon Musk’s planned massive semiconductor factory. In simple terms, it is a factory designed to manufacture the advanced computer chips that his companies will need for AI, robots, autonomous vehicles and future space-based data centres.
And this is where the story gets even crazier.
Musk wants Terafab to eventually produce 100 to 200 billion AI and memory chips every year.
Why does he need that many?
Musk is trying to build an enormous AI ecosystem across Tesla, SpaceX, robotics and his AI projects. Instead of depending entirely on existing chip manufacturers, he wants to control a huge part of the chip supply himself.
And then there is the really ambitious part.
Some of these chips could eventually be used to build massive data centres in space.
The idea is that instead of keeping all that computing infrastructure on Earth, SpaceX could put huge amounts of computing power into orbit, where it could be powered by solar energy and used for AI.
So the long-term vision is basically:
Build one of the largest buildings ever created.
Fill it with semiconductor manufacturing.
Produce hundreds of billions of AI chips.
Use those chips to power Tesla, robots, autonomous systems and AI.
Then send massive amounts of computing infrastructure into space.
That is the Terafab vision.
Why is he the richest guy on the planet here is your answer, his dreams are crazy
Whether Musk can actually execute something on this scale is another question entirely.
But if he does, this won’t just be another factory.
It could become one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in the global AI race.
Never bet against Elon.
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Elon Musk: I taught myself to code from a book, then sold my own games to buy better computers.
“When I was about 10, I walked into a computer store in South Africa and saw an actual computer. I previously had some early sort of precursors to the Atari system, and then I got the Atari system, which I'm sure a lot of people here have played.
But then I saw you could actually have a computer where you could make your own games, and it was a Commodore VIC-20. So that was the first computer I bought. And then I got some books on how to teach yourself programming. And this was like the coolest thing I'd ever seen. So I was just like, this is super awesome.
And so I started programming games and then selling games in order to actually buy more games. So a bit of a circular thing. And more games and better computers and that kind of thing.
Basically I'd spend money on better computers and Dungeons and Dragons modules and things like that.”
Source: Computer History Museum, Revolutionaries, January 22, 2013.
"Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun. It's gradually expanding, we do at some point have to be a multi-planetary civilization because Earth will be incinerated…"
- Elon Musk on the need for planetary civilization. @Acyn (2025)
Mission: Expanding the Scope and Scale of Consciousness.
From my 📸 of the billboard on Times Square
“This is, depending on how you read it, either the most ridiculous thing a serious company has ever put on its mission page or the most honest. We think it’s the latter.” —@a16z
🚨 In 2016, Elon Musk casually spent $300M digging a tunnel underground.
Wall Street laughed: “It’s just a publicity stunt.”
Today? That “stunt” is worth $100B+.
Here’s the wild story of The Boring Company the project Musk started as a joke tweet… that may end up solving traffic forever. 👇
It began with frustration.
Stuck in LA traffic, Musk fired off a tweet in Dec 2016:
“Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.”
People thought he was trolling.
Two weeks later, The Boring Company was born.
Mission: dig tunnels to end gridlock.
At first, nobody took him seriously.
Analysts mocked: “This is a distraction. A PR stunt.”
But Musk spotted what others ignored:
Tunneling tech was outdated
Costs were insane ($1B per mile)
Machines hadn’t improved in decades
His plan: reinvent the industry.
Step one? Buy a second-hand boring machine and start experimenting.
Step two? Fund it in the most Musk way possible.
In 2017, the company raised $112.5M.
$100M came from Musk’s pocket.
The rest? From selling 20,000 flamethrowers at $500 each.
Wall Street rolled its eyes. Musk doubled down.
By 2018, the first test tunnel in Hawthorne, California, was complete.
Cost: $10M per mile.
Traditional tunnels: $1B per mile.
That’s a 99% cost cut.
How? Smaller tunnels + continuous digging tech.
Now it wasn’t a joke anymore.
In 2019, Vegas called.
The Boring Company won a $48.7M contract under the Convention Center.
By 2021, it was finished fast, cheap, and functional.
The “publicity stunt” suddenly had proof of concept.
Investors woke up.
In 2021, the company raised $675M at a $5.7B valuation.
Then came the twist.
By 2023, it wasn’t just about cars.
Musk pivoted to utility tunnels: water, power, internet fiber.
Valuation: $127B.
Today:
Projects are running in Vegas, Texas, Florida.
Cities worldwide want in.
The total market? Trillions.
From one frustrated tweet → to Musk’s most valuable company yet.
💡 Lessons:
1. “Dumb” ideas can become billion-dollar revolutions.
2. Ignore the crowd. Persist.
3. Innovation can transform even the most boring industries.
So… next time you’re stuck in traffic and have a “crazy” idea?
Don’t dismiss it.
It could be your $127B moment.
Copied from Ifeanyi Christopher ( Facebook).
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Mark Zuckerberg has finally monetized WhatsApp.
Imagine building one of the cleanest and most efficient products in the world… only to slowly dilute it because of money.
WhatsApp was never just another app.
It was simple. No noise. No distractions. Just pure communication.
That was the magic.
Now, that simplicity is slowly being chipped away.
Not because the product needed it...
But because the business behind it wants more money.
Meta Platforms didn’t buy it for charity. They bought it to monetize it.
And this is how great products start to lose their soul.
It never happens in one big move.
It happens in small, “harmless” changes.
A feature here. A monetization layer there.
Until one day... it no longer feels the same.
This is how purity dies in tech.
Not by destruction... But by gradual compromise.
But business must make money.
The moment the original owners sold, they already knew this day would come.
Mark Zuckerberg is compromising one of the most beloved products in the world... and he’s getting away with it.
Source: Ifeanyi Christopher.
Elon Musk on the Ultimate Friendship Test:
Anyone can be your friend when life is good
The real test is who shows up when everything falls apart
Fair-weather friends are useless
Real ones stay through the storm
Choose your circle wisely
A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
H/t: @XFreeze
There was no award when Newton discovered three laws of forces, nor when da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
There was no Grammy for Beethoven or Chopin, nor a Nobel Prize in Literature for Homer.
Masterpieces do not seek transient trophies but aim to be timeless.
🚨 BREAKING: The richest man in the world says most people think by analogy... copying what already exists. He thinks by first principles... rebuilding from the ground up.
Elon Musk applied first principles to rockets, electric cars, and brain interfaces. Each time, experts said it was impossible. Each time, he proved them wrong.
The method isn't complicated. But almost nobody actually uses it.
I turned first principles thinking into 10 Claude prompts.
You describe any problem, any challenge, any "impossible" goal... and it strips away assumptions to show you what's actually true.
Here are all 10: